Heritage
Interpretation Training Center
Interpretive
Writing and Interpretive Basics
Are you getting
ready for Fall projects? Some of
our most popular courses have opening available now that might help you with
them. All courses are taught by
professionally trained and experienced interpreters who have taught university
courses in heritage interpretation and with decades of experience "doing"
interpretation. You can start the courses at any time and complete
the courses at your own pace. These are
e-live courses meaning you can talk with your instructor at any time you
have questions. Click on the link for each course to
review the course content details.
Introduction
to Heritage Interpretation Course. 14 Units - 2 CEU credits.
$150.00
http://www.heritageinterp.com/introduction_to_heritage_interpretation_course.html
(Review
and use of Tilden's principles, the model of interpretive, theme and objective
development, presentation techniques, self-evaluation and more.) The course
includes e-book copies of our interpretive planning textbooks as
well.
Advanced
Interpretive Services for Chiefs of Interpretation, Interpretive Services
Managers, Regional Interpretive Specialists, Park and Heritage Site Managers,
and other professional interpretive
specialists.
15 Units, 3 CEU Credits Tuition:
$500.00
www.heritageinterp.com/advanced_interpretation_for_chiefs_of_interp_-_in.html
(Looking
at management strategies, staff training and supervision, contracting
interpretive services, working with/developing partnerships and more. A
"business approach" to interpretation.)
Interpretive
Writing e-LIVE Course - 8 Units and 2 CEU Credits
$200.00
http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_writing_course.html
(What makes your writing "Interpretive" anyway? Use of Tilden's Principles - provoke, relate, reveal - theme and objective development, tangibles and intangibles, active language, the recreational learning theory and practices, why visitors don't like to read interpretive labels except experts looking for errors (from research studies), writing pre-testing and more.)Our newest book "The Interpretive Writers Handbook" will be out this winter, but our draft copy will be available to course participants in the meantime.
Training
for Interpretive Trainers e-LIVE Course - 11 Units and 2 CEU Credits.
$200.00
http://www.heritageinterp.com/training_for_interp_trainers.html
(How
to develop and present training workshops to teach interpretation techniques and
principles to others. Includes a copy of our textbook "The
Interpretive Trainers Handbook".)
We
teach 35 different professional development courses in heritage interpretation,
all based on 30 years of actually doing all of the
course subjects we teach as interpretive planning, design and training
consultants, and teaching university courses in interpretation. You can click on the link to review our
course catalog.
http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_training_center_course_catalogue_.html
If
you have any questions at all please feel free to contact
me.
Cheers,
John
Veverka
Director,
HITC
Certified
Interpretive Trainer
Sr.
Instructor, Kansas State University Global Campus (Interpretive
Planning).