Which Family History Course?

[pjbuk007]

I am keen on doing a diploma/certificate course in family history/local history.  At the WDYTYA Live Show I was impressed by the University of Dundee Online course. 

I would really have liked to go to a "live" taught course, but I cannot find any in Hampshire, or London.  I also searched these boards.  The AGRA course no longer seems to be available.   

I would be very grateful for any experience of courses, recommendations or suggestions from you all.

I have been Googling around and tonight came up with some possibilities.  If others would find it useful, perhaps we could have a sticky thread about Family History/Genealogy/Local History courses?  I will paste in what I found tonight:-

University of Dundee
Certificate in Family & Local History
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/prospectus/distlearning/courseprofiles/familyhist.htm

University of Strathclyde
Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Genealogical Studies
(Campus-based and Online)
http://www.cll.strath.ac.uk/cpd/genealogy/

University of Central Lancashire
University Certificate/Advanced Certificate in Family History
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/online/

University of Oxford
Advanced Diploma in Local History via the Internet
http://diplocalhistory.conted.ox.ac.uk/


Birkbeck, University of London    NO LONGER AVAILABLE Now there are genealogy and archive modules in day or evening in London, also some interesting sounding London/social history modules.   see the end of this thread.

The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) (in Canterbury)
The Correspondence Course in Genealogy  (and various others)
http://www.ihgs.ac.uk/courses/index.php

Society of Genealogists (in London)
Various lectures and short courses
http://www.sog.org.uk/events/calendar.shtml

The Open University
Start Writing Family History
http://www.open.ac.uk/

The Oral History Society
Oral History Society Training: An Introduction to Oral History
http://www.ohs.org.uk/training/intro.php

Incidentally, I am not aiming to be a professional genealogist, but like studying and would like to get my teeth into family history!

[millymcb]

I think a sticky thread is a good idea..

This one looks interesting... it's not genealogy but PUBLIC HISTORY at Ruskin College (Oxfordshire).

http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/topics/page.php?topic_id=6

[pjbuk007]

Whoops, I missed out Strathclyde which also looks good and can lead to a Masters degree course in 2008.

I have modified the post to include this. 

Has no-one else any comments about these and other courses?

[pjbuk007]

And there are Pharos (who were also at WDYTYA Live)

They do short online courses on various family history topics, which are reasonably priced.

http://www.pharostutors.com/index.php

Anyone done any of these?

[mitchell]

Thanks for the link to Pharos...I was thinking about doing one of the Scottish courses as they look quite good but had lost the link 
 
I quite fancy trying the OU one next year as it's quite reasonably priced...the others are too expensive at the moment.

Elaine

[Uncle Reff]

I did look at the Open University course A173 Start Writing Family History, and it looks a good course.

Coming from the OU it will be high quality and well tutored.

However, I decided not to go for it at the moment as it appears to me that it is a course that is quite academic and is not particularly about genealogy as such.

I suggest that anyone seriously interested in this course reads the course content in detail to make sure that it is right for them. This is at: http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01A173

I would be very interested in hearing from anybody who has actually taken the course.

John

[linmey]

Hi John,
There were some Rootschatters who took this course last year and did provide some feedback on it. I will see if I can find the thread for you.

Linda.

[Uncle Reff]

Thanks Linda,

I did do a quick search on Rootschat before I posted, but could not find anything of any depth.

I should say that I am a great fan of the Open University, after all they made a big mistake when they let me have a degree a few years ago 

John

[Daffodilly]

Is this thread any use?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,130197.0.html