[can-talk] 'Building Community Relationships' at UVic!

Please excuse cross postings.

Join Elizabeth Kidd, Arts Programmer for the Roundhouse Community Centre
in Vancouver -- and colleagues from across North America and beyond --
in this distance eduacation offering that will help you to build and
sustain mutually beneficial community relationships...

BUILDING COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS

Strong, sustained, and mutually beneficial relationships with
communities are critical to museums and other cultural and heritage
organizations seeking to play timely, relevant, positive, and socially
responsible roles in society. This new distance education course builds
your knowledge and skills associated with effective community cultural
and social development activities, and strengthens your capacity to:

*	assess personal, professional, and organizational readiness to 
	initiate community partnerships 
*	identify community characteristics and needs 
*	define potential community roles and relationships 
*	acquire personal and organizational community cultural
development competencies 
*	build and sustain reciprocal, mutually beneficial relationships
with diverse 
	groups through a range of appropriate and collaborative
initiatives 
*	interact with communities in respectful and culturally
appropriate ways 
*	include and balance diverse perspectives associated with
effective 
	community cultural and social development activities 
*	deal with controversy and resolve conflict 
*	measure the effectiveness of community partnerships 

Dates: September 10 - December 16 
Location: online from anywhere through the University of Victoria
Fee: $620 CDN, includes $560 tuition and $60 materials
Course information: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/ha488S.aspx

You can participate on a credit or non-credit basis - for more
information on this course and others offered in the Fall of 2008,
please visit our website at http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp

Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies
University of Victoria
T: (250) 721-6119
crmp at uvcs.uvic.ca
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/