Admin skills: seeds

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This course aims to provide skills for completing site forms using the site form template issued by the Archaeology Branch. It will include a basic introduction of select elements of the Heritage Conservation Act, related to preservation of heritage sites. Learners are expected to have little to no experience with 

The course focuses on how to use Google Earth in a general sense, and how it can support archaeological research and data management more specifically. This course is outcome-based, and over the duration of the course learners will work in small groups and independently to become familiar with Google Earth format and capabilities, importing and analyzing data, creating new data, and georeferencing. The focus of this course is to provide students with the skills and confidence to use Google Earth in a professional archaeology setting. Learners are expected to have access to, and basic familiarity with, computers (Apple or PC) and the internet. Familiarity using navigational/map applications (i.e., Google Maps, Bing Maps, iMapBC, etc.) is a plus, but not required.

This course aims to provide skills for receiving, reviewing, tracking, and responding to archaeology permit referrals, received by First Nations administration from the Archaeology Branch (as a policy [1999] of the Archaeology Branch’s administering of permits under the Heritage Conservation Act [HCA]). It will include a basic introduction to why referrals are sent, what referrals are, how to review them, how to track reviews, and how to respond with comments. On a higher level, this course contributes to building First Nations’ heritage capacity, in a way that is in alignment with local heritage interests and goals, and which represents a consultative feedback loop. Learners are expected to have little to no experience with referrals or the HCA.