From the landscapes associated with historic buildings, industries and rural communities, to traditional use sites of First Nations peoples, cultural landscapes are tremendously diverse resources that present special conservation and management challenges. This course focuses on the complex nature of cultural landscapes and develops your ability to identify, evaluate, and develop conservation strategies for landscape resources that are integral to your community.

Topics include:

"defining cultural landscape types and their boundaries


"applying current best practices in heritage conservation


"recognizing evolving interactions between natural systems and human interventions


"evaluating heritage values, significance, and integrity


"consulting effectively with stakeholders and the community


"planning sustainable management strategies


"balancing conflicting resources and uses


This course is designed to meet the needs of professionals from a wide range of fields that come together in the management of cultural landscapes.

Registration Deadline: August 12, 2014; late registrations accepted if space permits

Fee: CAD $717.97 (Canadian funds, credit and non-credit participation options) including a CAD$75 materials fee and a CAD$100 tuition deposit is required with each registration form. The tuition balance of CAD$542.97 is due on or before the first day of the course. UVSS Fees will also be assessed to credit students only. Please refer to our registration and withdrawal policies.

Note: Fees have been adjusted to reflect a 2% tuition increase in May 2014

Instructor: Wendy Shearer FCSLA, is a Cultural Heritage Landscape Consultant in private practice in Guelph, Ontario. She has extensive expertise in the research, documentation, assessment and conservation planning of varied cultural heritage landscapes of local, provincial and national significance. Wendy Shearer is an active member of the professional heritage community with her involvement in the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation and since 1989, the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals. She has taught the Cultural Landscape course at UVic since 2007 and was adjunct professor at the University of Guelph between 1995 and 1999.