Online Course: Project Management for History Professionals (Fall 2018)

Do you often juggle several projects, trying to keep each one focused and on track? Project management provides valuable training that will help you organize, manage, and successfully complete projects. This online course shows you how to implement internationally recognized project management principles in a history/nonprofit context.

Details:

DATES: October 15 – November 9, 2018

COST: $350 AASLH members/$425 nonmembers

OPEN REGISTRATION: August 10 - October 15, 2018; 25 person max

Logistics:

FORMAT: Online, self-paced weekly modules

LENGTH: 4 weeks

PARTICIPATION STYLE: Weekly online chats; Students should expect to spend 5-7 hours per week on the course

MATERIALS: There are no required materials for this course. All materials will be provided within the online classroom.

Description & Outcomes:

Coursework will cover all of the details included in the four steps to successful project management:

1. Define (creating a project charter, setting initial objectives, identifying risks and constraints, and more)
2. Plan (developing a schedule, budget, etc.)
3. Manage (providing feedback, negotiating for resources and resolving differences)
4. Review (turning over deliverables, documentation and more)

Using a real-life project they bring to the course, participants apply project management principles to complete a project charter and scope diagram they can then use to begin or continue their project in an efficient, orderly and open manner.

This course consists of four modules that include assignments, quizzes, and other activities. While the first week’s module is guided, the rest are self-paced. Weekly online chats provide opportunities for students to interact with the instructor and each other.

Students should expect to spend five to seven hours per week on the course.

Who should attend:

Project Management is valuable training for staff at all levels. Whether your work involves exhibitions, education and programs, planning, fundraising, collections, historic preservation or the many other tasks staff at history organizations address every day, you will gain new skills, ideas and tools for effectively managing projects.

Participant Feedback:

“Project management is usually discussed in terms of software development or construction management. It was so helpful to see its value within a humanities context. This is some of the best professional development I have ever experienced. Excellent instruction.” – 2015 participant

Instructor:

AASLH welcomes Gina Minks as its new project management instructor. For the past five years, Gina has had her own consulting business and taught project management classes for the University of North Texas. She has also taught for the Library Information Technology Association and the Society of American Archivists. Prior to that, she served as the Imaging and Preservation service manager for Amigos Library Services where she managed NEH grants. Gina is active in professional associations including her current service as a board member for the Society of American Archivists Foundation. She is also a member of the National Heritage Responders and has been part of disaster recovery after Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Wilma, and Super Storm Sandy.