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Small Museum Pro!

Small Museum Pro! is a professional certification program for people who work or would like to work in small, local museums and who need practical guidance and education on running and managing a museum. This program is a partnership between Small Museum Pro and ENMU. To obtain a certificate, participants will need to complete all five Small Museum Pro! courses, which will be offered only online. Each class is worth three Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The following is a tentative schedule for the delivery of the five Small Museum Pro!

Fall 2009 (Beginning Aug. 2009):
First eight weeks: Building Effective Museum Exhibits
Second eight weeks: Running and Managing a Small Museum

Spring 2010 (Beginning Jan. 2010):
First eight weeks: Managing and Organizing Museum Collections
Second eight weeks: Caring for Museum Collections

Summer 2010 (Beginning June 2010):
Museum Education: Crafting Great Learning Experiences

Small Museum Pro! Exhibits: Building Effective Museum Exhibits

This class is about how to put together an exhibition, from deciding what it will be about and why, to gathering, creating and arranging all the elements for visitors. You’ll learn a lot from your classmates, from their own experiences and from the resources that they share with all of us. And you’ll learn the best way: by doing—you will develop an actual exhibit over the course of the class. Each week students will be expected to: study materials directly within the online class site; find other resources on the web or in the community and share them with the class; share your own knowledge, experience and resources with the class; and complete one or more exhibit-development assignments and share your work with the class.

Required text: Parman, Alice and Jeffrey Jane Flowers. Exhibit Makeovers, A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2008 ($29.95).

When: Aug. 17–Oct. 9, 2009 (First eight weeks)
Where: eight week online format
Fee: $195
Register by: Aug. 12

Small Museum Pro! Museum Administration: Running and Managing a Small Museum

This course will cover a broad spectrum of topics related to museum administration, or those things that need to happen in a museum in order for the collections to be cared for, tracked, exhibited and interpreted. Topics include the governance structure, the board’s roles & responsibilities, the relationship between the board and the staff, and legal and ethical guidelines and constraints. As part of the Small Museum Pro! Certification Program, this course is geared toward fairly small museums and their staffs: staff members who may or may not be paid or who in fact may be on the board and also serve as curator. However, even if you are in a paid position in which you work mostly with collections, you will benefit from an understanding of the administrative side of the museum, if only to better understand the actions of the director or the board. At the end of this course students will: understand the governance structure of most nonprofit museums; know about the history and unique requirements of the nonprofit sector; know how important the mission statement is to everything a museum undertakes; understand the major roles and responsibilities of the board; have created a Board Member Handbook for board member training at your organization; know about basic museum accountability, nonprofit corporate law and museum ethics; know how to assess the board and work toward creating a more effective board through education and evaluation; know which policies each museum should have in place; know about museum standards and best practices; and have a handful of tools and samples to use to help your museum reach these standards and best practices.

Required texts:
1) Wolf, Thomas. Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Fireside,
Simon and Schuster Inc., 1999 (Paperback – ISBN-13: 978-0-684-84990-4) (About $14.50).
2) Malaro, Marie C. Museum Governance: Mission, Ethics, Policy. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1994 (Paperback – ISBN 1-56098-363-9) (About $18).

When: Oct. 12–Dec. 11 (second eight weeks)
Where: eight week online format
Fee: $195
Register by: Oct. 7

How to Register

Contact Eastern New Mexico University’s department of Distance Education and Outreach, at 575.562.2165 to register or ask questions regarding Small Museum Pro!. These classes will be delivered via ENMU’s web-based learning platform, Blackboard. In order to use Blackboard, a student will need a unique identification number and password. These numbers will be generated by ENMU upon full-payment for a student’s desired courses. The information will then be forwarded to the student’s designated email address, and he or she will be able to log on to Blackboard.

Legal Nurse Consultant Training Course

Coordinated by our educational partner, Scott A, Hatch, J.D., of the Center for Legal Studies in Golden, Colo. this course is available in a seven-week online format, taught by renowned legal nurse consultant Jennifer Graham, R.N. The course is open to any RN or other medical professional interested in the field of forensic testimony and medical-legal issues, and the curriculum is specifically designed to prepare participants for a career as legal nurse consultant. Building on students’ medical education and possible clinical experience, this course prepares participants to testify in court as expert witnesses and to advise law firms, health care providers, insurance companies, and governmental agencies regarding medical issues.

The course teaches legal concepts related to the health care industry, as well as the role a legal nurse consultant might play in litigation areas such as medical malpractice, toxic torts, products liability, personal injury, wrongful death, criminal law, and workers’ compensation. CEUs for nurses will be available to successful graduates if needed, for an additional small fee. Legal Nurse Consultant Certification (LNCC) Examination eligibility requirements are discussed during this training course; however, students who successfully complete this course need not take the LNCC test in order to practice as legal nurse consultants.

Students receive 42 hours of instruction and will be required to prepare assignments and pass weekly quizzes. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion from Eastern New Mexico University. Three repeating sessions are scheduled for this Spring. Tuition is $789 with a required textbook, Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, second edition costing an additional $115, plus shipping and handling. Registration and textbook orders can be placed by calling 800-522-PREP (same as 800-522-7737), or you may visit www.legalstudies.com for more information or registration.

Online Format: seven week course
When: Session 5: Aug. 24–Oct. 9, Session 6: Oct. 19–Dec. 4
Where: www.legalstudies.com
Fee: $789
Register by: see www.legalstudies.com
Required and Recommended Textbooks: variable costs

Paralegal Certificate Course

Coordinated by our educational partner, Scott A. Hatch, J.D., of the Center for Legal Studies in Golden, Colorado, this course is available in VHS videotape, DVD, audio, text-only, or online format. This intensive, nationally acclaimed program is designed for beginning as well as advanced legal workers. The course will teach students how to work as a full-time or part-time paralegal, and how to open a free-lance business. Students will be trained to assist trial attorneys, interview witnesses, investigate complex fact patterns, research the law and assist in preparing cases for courtroom litigation. The instruction is practice-oriented and related to those areas of the law in which paralegals are most in demand. This program will help students learn new marketable job skills and increase their office’s efficiency, productivity and billable hours. There are no prerequisites; however, students will be expected to complete a significant amount of homework, and must pass numerous quizzes and successfully complete several legal document writing assignments.

Students have 14 weeks to complete the online course. Students have a maximum of 12 months to complete the two-part course in the VHS, audio, DVD, or text-only format, for which enrollment is open and ongoing. Students who successfully complete both Paralegal I and Paralegal II will receive a Certificate of Completion from ENMU. Tuition is $1039 with required textbooks and WESTLAW legal research access costing an additional $320, plus shipping and handling. Registration and textbook orders can be placed by calling 800-522-PREP (same as 800-522-7737), or visit www.legalstudies.com.

Online Format: Seven week course
When: Session 5: Aug. 24–Oct. 9, Session 6: Oct. 19–Dec. 4
Where: www.legalstudies.com
Fee: $1039
Register by: see www.legalstudies.com
Required and Recommended Textbooks: variable costs

Advanced Paralegal Certificate Courses

Students should have successfully completed the Paralegal Course above, or the equivalent, before enrolling in these Advanced Paralegal Courses. These courses (14 different advanced topics) are available in online format lasting seven weeks each. Students will receive 4.5 CEUs upon successful completion of each advanced course, and CLE units (generally seven per topic) may also be awarded to attorneys and other legal professionals who successfully complete an advanced course. More than one course may be taken during any given session, and the topics can be taken in any order; however, it is recommended that students should not take more than three courses per session due to significant homework requirements. Students who successfully complete at least six advanced course topics will receive a
Certificate of Completion from Eastern New Mexico University. Registration and textbook orders can be placed by calling 800-522-PREP (same as 800-522-7737), or you may visit www.legalstudies.com for information and registration.

Online Format: Seven week course
When: Session 5: Aug 24–Oct 9, Session 6: Oct. 19–Dec. 4
Where: www.legalstudies.com
Fee: $1650
Register by: see www.legalstudies.com
Required and Recommended Textbooks: variable costs

Law School Preparation Course

This course, coordinated by our educational partner, Scott A. Hatch, J.D., of the Center for Legal Studies in Golden, Colo. is offered in an online format, and is designed to help pre-law students excel in their first year of law school. Its objective is to teach a proven approach for attacking the burdensome casebook method of instruction so that dedicated students can enter law school prepared and maximize their studies on the very first day. Students can complete the online course in just seven weeks.

Extensive materials (including any first-year course outlines) are provided. You may register by calling 800-522-PREP (same as 800-522-7737), or visit www.legalstudies.com for more information or registration. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion from Eastern New Mexico University.

Online Format: Seven week course
When: Session 5: Aug. 24–Oct. 9, Session 6: Oct. 19–Dec. 4
Where: www.legalstudies.com
Fee: $300
Register by: see www.legalstudies.com
Required and Recommended Textbooks: variable costs

Victim Advocacy Certificate Course

Coordinated by our educational partner, Scott A. Hatch, J.D., this course is available in VHS videotape, DVD, audio, or online format taught by Alison Hatch, B.A., M.A. The course will prepare participants to work in victim advocacy with domestic violence shelters, crisis centers, crisis hotlines and state and county governments. Course topics include legal terminology, legal process, jurisdiction and venue, ethics, guardianships, crisis intervention, sexual assault, domestic violence, grief counseling, temporary restraining orders, and community counseling. There are no prerequisites; however, students will be expected to complete homework. Students who successfully complete this non-credit course will receive a Certificate of Completion from Eastern New Mexico University. Tuition is $525 with a required textbook, Victim Advocacy Manual, costing an additional $40 plus shipping and handling. Registration and textbook orders can be placed by calling 800-522-PREP (same as 800-522-7737), or you may visit www.legalstudies.com for more information or registration.

Online Format: Seven week course
When: Session 5: Aug. 24–Oct. 9, Session 6: Oct. 19–Dec. 4
Where: www.legalstudies.com
Fee: $300
Register by: see www.legalstudies.com
Required and Recommended Textbooks: variable costs