Cultural Landscapes From heritage farmlands to cemeteries, city parks and gardens to Aboriginal sacred sites, cultural landscapes are places with special significance to their communities that require specialized understanding and approaches to their conservation and management. This 6-day immersion course offered by the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is designed for individuals from a wide range of professional fields working with cultural landscapes to develop effective strategies and approaches to their conservation and management. It focuses on the unique nature of cultural landscapes, and develops your ability to identify, evaluate, and develop preservation strategies for landscape resources that are integral to your community. Topics include: * defining and reading cultural landscapes * recognizing evolving interactions between natural systems and human interventions * evaluating heritage values, significance, and integrity * planning sustainable management strategies * balancing conflicting resources and uses Instructor: Wendy Shearer is Managing Director of Cultural Heritage at MHBC Planning, based in Kitchener Ontario. She is an award winning landscape architect with 27 years of experience in the research, documentation, assessment and conservation planning of cultural heritage landscapes. Wendy has been involved in numerous heritage projects throughout Ontario including heritage conservation district studies for rural settlements and urban neighbourhoods. As well, she has worked on the restoration and management planning of several historic parks, gardens and estates from the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She brings to this course demonstrated expertise in evaluating the wide variety of cultural heritage landscapes and developing conservation plans and implementation strategies based on the heritage values of the property. Dates: April 11-16, 2011 Registration Deadline: March 14, 2011, register early to ensure a seat; late registrations welcomed if space permits; credit and non-credit options available; can be taken individually for credit towards a Diploma in Cultural Resource Management<http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Program/Detail/?code=CULRESMNG>, or a Professional Specialization Certificate in Heritage Conservation Planning<http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Program/Detail/?code=PSCHCP> or towards programs elsewhere (with permission). Fee: CAD$669. For more information, visit the Cultural Resource Management Program website at http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Course/Detail/?code=HA489G Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) members can earn 36 learning units of organized Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activity. Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC) members can earn 36 non-core learning units. Trisha Carleton, BA, Program Coordinator Tel: 250-721-6119 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Cultural Resource Management Programs Division of Continuing Studies PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3N6 Canada Web: www.uvcs.uvic.ca/cultural<http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/cultural> ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).