A six-day intensive course for museum & heritage professionals at the University of Victoria on southern Vancouver Island with Harold D. Kalman, Ph.D.

This course provides an overview of heritage planning, the field within heritage conservation that addresses and resolves proposed interventions to historic places in the context of community planning and development. This course is designed to meet the needs of professionals involved in the management of historic places, whether in the public or the private sector and at any level from beginning heritage planner to senior decision-maker.

Through an investigation of the procedures, tools and strategies available to plan for the conservation and revitalization of historic places, the course will develop your ability to:

• Recognize heritage conservation planning as a professional activity that is guided by well-established core principles and practices
• Become familiar with the charters, standards, statutes, and legislation that guide and regulate heritage conservation practice
• Understand the historic place by means of research and physical investigation, and by identifying community values
• Evaluate the historic place, based on the values that were identified
• Advance and respond to proposals for interventions to historic places, working to reconcile heritage interests with other competing interests and to move them effectively through the regulatory, political, and public consultation processes
• Select appropriate conservation strategies and interventions for particular situations
• Assess potential impacts of proposed interventions and propose mitigation where appropriate
• Understand the full range of conservation ‘tools’ available, in order to create incentives to property owners and achieve good conservation outcomes
• Learn how to prepare and assess a conservation plan
• Understand the relationships among heritage conservation, sustainability, tourism, economics, and ethics

Registration Deadline: February 21, 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, or a Professional Specialization Certificate in Heritage Conservation Planning or towards programs elsewhere (with permission).
Fee: CAD$669, including a CAD$75 materials fee (Canadian funds, credit and non-credit participation options).

Instructor: Harold D. Kalman, Ph.D., LL.D, is a heritage planner and architectural historian, and principal of the Vancouver office of Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Ltd. Raised in Montreal, he received his education at Princeton University and had additional conservation training at Cornell University and York University. He taught at the University of British Columbia before entering private practice. He is Honorary Professor of Architecture at Hong Kong University and continues to lecture and teach worldwide on conservation and cultural heritage. Kalman has served as the founding president of both the Canadian and the BC Associations of Heritage Professionals, and on the boards of the Association for Preservation Technology and ICOMOS Canada. He is the author of many standard texts on conservation and architecture. He received the British Columbia Heritage Award in 2006 and the Heritage Canada Foundation’s Gabrielle Léger Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2009.


Trisha Carleton, BA, Program Coordinator
Tel: 250-721-6119 Email: carleton@uvic.ca

Cultural Resource Management Programs
Division of Continuing Studies
PO Box 3030 STN CSC
Victoria, British Columbia
V8W 3N6 Canada