Heritage Interpretation Training Center
Our new Certified Professional Heritage Interpreter certification programs
are now available.
While other organizations may professional certificates in heritage interpretation, our Certified Professional Interpreter Certificates are far more content extensive, taught at a university level, and more in-depth learning experiences than any of the other interpretive certificates. They offer more current content and interpretive examples and current case studies, hands-on learning experiences and direct content with the Certificate Manager/Trainer and Coach throughout your Certification experience. Our courses are taught by actual professional heritage interpreters with college degrees majoring in heritage interpretation, having taught university interpretive courses (the Ohio State University and Michigan State University and others) and years of experience in doing interpretive projects worldwide and teaching heritage interpretation courses, workshops and seminars for over 40 years.
Who is the Certified Professional Heritage Interpreter certificates program for?
- Interpreters in other countries where professional (university level) courses or related training in heritage interpretation is currently not available.
- Professional or new tourist guides wanting to add heritage certification credentials to their resume and marketing (and enhance their guiding skills).
- Interpreters wishing to start their own heritage interpretation/tourism consulting business and need heritage credentials to help make them more marketable.
- Individuals wanting a career in/as a professional interpreter but do not have access to other professional training opportunities.
- Individuals currently working as an interpretive planner, trainer, tourist guide or another interpretive specialist,
but have had no college-level training in interpretation and related interpretive planning for interpretive media
or interpretive training programs and skills.
- Consulting firms offering interpretive planning/design services whose staff does not have
professional training actually in interpretive planning or related interpretive services or have college degrees majoring in
heritage interpretation who wish to add "certifications" to their marketing and service skills.
- Individuals working in the interpretive profession who do not have a B.S. or M.S degree
majoring in heritage interpretation or who have had only one or two courses in heritage
interpretation and want to advance their professional knowledge of the interpretive profession.
- Folks who wish to use this professional certification for agency or personal employment advancement.
-Interpreters with an insatiable desire to learn and be the best they can in interpretation - knowledge is
power.
- Based on a University Course progression system consisting of completing actual courses in interpretation, not just taking one course, one open book test and mainly paying the certification course fee. These Certificate courses are offered in a content sequence leading up to the final course in developing your unique interpretive project or visitor experience.
- Awards CEU (Continuing Education Units) credits for the certification programs and each individual course that is offered as part of the certificate program. While you can work on the certificate programs at your own pace, the estimated completion time is 10 months.
Upon completion of your certification program, you will receive:
- Framed certification certificate.
- Your training and course transcript of all courses taken (or special programs undertaken for a
course waiver).
- Course pin and course logo for use on your website or other documents.
- A very large course e-book and resource library (used throughout the course in your program).
- The Heritage Interpretation Resource Center instructor/coach to use as a professional reference.
Our Certification course waiver program.
Unlike some certificate programs, our certification requires participants to actually take/complete courses related to the certification you are working toward. You can visit the website page for each certification program for course requirements. Now I know that many folks have asked about courses they already have taken - so we offer a course waiver program for work already previously completed in your interpretive training. Course waivers will also adjust the course registration tuition. So we can waiver our certification courses for/if:
- College courses you have completed in heritage interpretation as part of a B.S. M.S or other degree program.
- Courses you have previously completed through the Heritage Interpretation Training Center.
- Other professional training courses previously taken, such as the 4-day US Army Corps of Engineers Interpretive Services courses (waiver for the Introduction to Interpretation certification course).
Training course partners offering professional courses in interpretation and museum studies where HITC Certification Courses can be waivered when successfully completing their interpretive/museum study courses include:
- And like with a University degree program - we can arrange course waivers for actual work or academic accomplishments (having articles published, teaching interpretive courses for seasonal staff or volunteers, extensive writing projects for exhibits, etc). Feel free to contact us about "special studies" waivers for certification courses.
If you have any questions about our new certification program, tuition structures and course waivers feel free to contact me. We can also arrange group certification programs as well if you wanted all staff to be certified in a particular topic area. Our certifications are "life certifications" - you wouldn't have to re-certify this again in 4/5 years.
More certification programs are under development as well.
