Just a reminder that the application deadline for the 1998 Certificate in
Museum Studies, entitled
           MANAGING CHANGE AND IMAGINING TOMORROW:
        CULTURAL STRATEGIES IN THE COMMUNICATIONS AGE
is Friday, November 28th.

Given the possibility of a Canadian postal strike, please let me know (by
any of the alternative addresses below) if or how you may be stuck.

For those of you who don't know what this is all about, I've pasted my
original message below.

Kersti Krug
Director, Certificate in Museum Studies
Museum of Anthropology
The University of British Columbia
6393 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, Canada  V6T 1Z2
        Phone   (604) 822-9859
        Fax     (604) 822-2974
        E-mail  [log in to unmask]

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The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia has just
concluded the first year of our interdisciplinary certificate program in
museum studies, entitled:
           MANAGING CHANGE AND IMAGINING TOMORROW:
        Cultural Strategies in the Communications Age

The program creates a safe environment in which people from different
cultural disciplines, different professions, and different institutional
affiliations can share ideas and together develop cultural strategies in the
face of social, political, technological, organizational, and personal
change.  Its balanced theoretical and practical approach aims to contribute
to new knowledge, develop an ongoing community of learners, and share tools
that we can all take back to the workplace.

The program is divided into three components:
1. 10-week distance learning seminar (e-mail discussion group)
2. 2-week intensive residential summer institute (on campus, but with many
outings, presenters, and learning methods)
3. 8-week distance learning seminar (using both e-mail and a WWW application)

The application deadline is November 28, the first Internet seminar starts
April 6, and the second ends October 2, 1998.  The Summer Institute fits
between them.

This inaugural year seems to be a resounding success.  Participants ranged
from Newfoundland to Hawaii, from the Northwest Territories to California,
from Alaska to Arizona, and big and little places in between.  In the coming
year, we're expecting entrants from the other side of both oceans.

If you send me your postal address, I'll send you a copy of the brochure
with application and scholarship information in it.  To see all of the
information (but not the forms), visit our home page:
                http://www.moa.ubc.ca
From here, look for Museum Studies: Certificate Program, or go directly to:
        http://www.moa.ubc.ca/Mstudy/certif2.html

Please share this information with colleagues who may also be ready for
deeper, broader thinking about the changing world in which we do our work.
And call/write me if you have any questions.