N.W. This program, now in its fifth year on the Baltimore campus, will enable participants to develop skills to work effectively in preserving our heritage, whether in restoring a home, understanding multiculturalism and ethnic heritage in revitalizing an inner-city neighborhood, serving on a commission or board or working in a field ancillary to historic preservation. Course content focuses on specific professional objectives as well as theory, and course work is directly applicable to both paid and volunteer positions. Students frequently use job projects to fulfill class assignments, developing valuable samples for their portfolios. Depending on needs and schedules, students can attend a course or enroll in the required courses to receive a certificate. The atmosphere is supportive.
Students share common goals and concerns.
Often they have opportunities to collaborate with classmates and teachers on projects. These are vital relationships, important to these programs, and a key measure of their success. More importantly, students find them the basis of strong career networks that extend well beyond the program into the future. One continuing education unit is defined as ten contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction and qualified instruction. The primary purpose of the CEU is to provide a permanent record of the educational accomplishments of an individual who has completed one or more significant noncredit educational experiences.