If you're looking for a comprehensive museum studies course that you can complete at work or at home, we're still accepting applications for "Introduction to Museum Studies" for the next few weeks. This distance education course, which has been offered since 1985, has been revised over the past few months to address the significant changes in accountability, community partnerships, cultural diversity, technology and funding that are facing museums across the continent. "Introduction to Museums Studies" uses extensive print materials and some video programming to cover the following sections: - Museums: An Introduction - Collections - Conservation - The Public Partnership - Exhibitions - Management Participants communicate by phone or email with a tutor on-campus, and prepare a variety of assignments which are submitted for grading and feedback. We ask that all participants be associated with a museum or related organization, in order to focus their studies and assignments on a practical context. Enrollment can be on a credit or non-credit basis, and the tuition fee is $590 (Canadian funds) The companion course "Introduction to Heritage Conservation" is also available. Please let me know if you'd like further information or registration materials. Joy Davis Cultural Resource Management Program University of Victoria 604-721-8462 FAx 604-721-8774 email [log in to unmask]