Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis This series of workshops introduces students to practical skills of interpretation and communication. These include surveying and assessing an historic landscape or site, preparing a conservation study, doing oral history, writing for a range of audiences, public speaking, surviving on commission, cataloguing a museum collection, preparing an exhibition brief, preparing text for publication, television presentation skills snd small business management. Field trips and special projects area are an essential part of the subject, and practising public historians are involved in leading some of the workshops.
Assessment Written, oral work and field exercises (9000 words): 100%