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University of Victoria Continuing Studies online course: Community Engagement and Social Change<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/community-engagement-and-social-change>
Museums and other cultural heritage organizations have the capacity to serve as dynamic social spaces for community engagement and action. This course explores the profound social changes that are reshaping the nature and purposes of museums in a pluralistic society and considers the implications for all aspects of their specialized functions. Participants utilize a group of core resources to assist their learning about how the museum and cultural field has evolved, why social and community engagement is a critical foundation for all other professional practices, and how other organizations have begun their journeys towards engagement. The course introduces participants to a series of skills and practices to initiate, facilitate, and support community engagement and embed them in organizational life. Participants complete either a community engagement assessment of a museum or cultural heritage organization utilizing a number of assessment tools or a community engagement plan, with components on strategy, participants, proposed engagement process / steps, and follow up activities to embed community engagement into ongoing practice.

Date: May 5 – August 10, 2025, online, asynchronous
Instructor: Dr. Candace Tangorra Matelic<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/51209>

Fee: Credit- $799.41 plus UVSS fees; Non-credit- $799.41

Course code: Credit- AHVS488W 2025K D02; Non-credit- AHVS488W 2025K D01

Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/community-engagement-and-social-change> by: March 1, 2025


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Maxine Reitsma (she/her)
Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
crmcoord at uvic.ca<mailto:crmcoord at uvic.ca> | 250.721.6477

I acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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