This Melbourne MicroCert is valuable for professionals from a wide range of sectors. You may have a background in urban policy, planning, property, construction, asset management, architecture, design, heritage or history. Or, you may be in the culture and arts sector or be a recent arts graduate with an interest in the area.

This course is taught at Australian Qualifications Framework level 9 (masters degree level).

To be eligible for this Melbourne MicroCert, you must have:

• A three-year undergraduate degree, and

• Successfully completed Introduction to Values-Based Heritage

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• Documented work experience in urban and cultural heritage
  

  or

• Prior tertiary study in heritage.

Applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

This Melbourne MicroCert draws upon the extensive experience of the ACAHUCH staff in research, education and engagement in the fields of urban and cultural heritage and architectural history.

You'll gain practical industry insights from leading practitioners in the Australian heritage sector. Learning is designed to be directly applied to a range of industries, whether you are working within the heritage field or collaborating with heritage specialists.

Depending on your circumstances, this Melbourne MicroCert may be recognised as continuing professional development (CPD) by the following bodies:

• Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)
• Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)
• Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (AILA)
• Certified Environmental Practitioner Scheme (CEPS)
• Law Institute
• Professional Historians Australia
• UK Institute of Historic Buildings Conservation (IHBC).

You will need to discuss and confirm this with each organisation directly.

By the end of this course, you'll have a solid, multidisciplinary understanding of a range of heritage and conservation methods. You'll be able to:

• Understand the importance of methods and evidence for heritage and conservation
• Identify how methods can be applied to work with the cultural values of heritage places
• Apply a range of methods to a heritage place.

This course runs over four weeks, which includes one pre-teaching week, two weeks of teaching, and one week for assessment.

Your total time commitment is approximately 37.5 hours, which includes:

• 7.5 hours guided online learning
• 7.5 hours self-directed exercises
• 7.5 hours reading
• 7.5 hours assessment tasks
• 7.5 hours independent study.

Assessment:

• Class participation (5%)
• Responses to prompt questions (5%)
• Individual report on a place of heritage significance (60%)
• Group project and presentation (30%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your New Approaches for Heritage Significance Melbourne MicroCert. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your Melbourne MicroCert digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.

New Approaches to Heritage Significance should be taken after completion of Introduction to Values-Based Heritage, or by those with work experience and/or prior study in heritage. You can then complement it with any other Melbourne MicroCert in the Urban and Cultural Heritage series to deepen your knowledge and skills.

It also offers a pathway – otherwise known as advanced standing – into the Master of Urban and Cultural Heritage. To use it this way, you need to complete all four Melbourne MicroCerts in the Urban and Cultural Heritage series, then apply for credit towards the masters.

The series includes:

• Statutory Heritage
• Introduction to Values-Based Heritage
• New Approaches for Heritage Significance

• New Tools for Documenting Heritage Fabric.

Within a multidisciplinary cohort of professionals, you'll utilise innovative learning technologies such as interactive digital seminars and virtual field trips with leading heritage practitioners, as well as undertake self-directed learning activities.

You'll explore key case studies from leading scholars and practitioners from Australia and across the world, engage with key heritage management tools, and be introduced to various international charters.

You'll also benefit from collaborative practice, with leading practitioners from across the cultural heritage sector joining in the delivery of this Melbourne MicroCert.

This Melbourne MicroCert will expire seven years from the date of issue as particular knowledge and/or skills may need to be refreshed.