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Education - Correspondence Courses
AIP Correspondence Courses
AIP offers four correspondence courses for the study of parliamentary
procedure. Each student is assigned an instructor who works individually
with the student. All instructors are Certified Parliamentarians or
Certified Professional Parliamentarians. The only course for which there
is a prerequisite is Course 4. To enroll in Course 4 the student must
hold the CP or CPP designations, or have the permission of the AIP
Education Director. The
Education Director may
be contacted for more information.
Each course is comprised of approximately 10 lessons. Each lesson
contains a reading assignment in addition to the material contained in
the lesson. Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised, 10th
edition, and The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, 4th
edition, are required books for reading assignments in all courses.
Additional books are required in Courses 2 and 4 and are listed under
Course Descriptions below.
Parliamentary Law by Henry M. Robert, Demeter’s Manual of
Parliamentary Law and Procedure* by George Demeter, and Riddick’s
Rules of Procedure by Floyd M. Riddick and Miriam H. Butcher are
suggested for additional reading in all courses.
*Available at the AIP Bookstore
At least one lesson must be submitted every 60 days, and the entire
course must be completed within two years after the first course
material is sent to the student.
The fee for each course is $200 for AIP members, and $275 for
non-members, and may be purchased
online from this website.
Course Descriptions:
Course 1: Meeting Management Skills. Lessons include the principles
and history of parliamentary law and practice, deliberative assemblies,
order of business, debate and strategy, officers and the minutes, and
more.
Course 2: Participating in a Meeting. Lessons include the principles
and precedence of motions, standard characteristics of motions, main,
subsidiary, privileged and incidental motions, and more. Required text
in addition to the two listed above is Demeter’s Manual of
Parliamentary Law and Procedure by George Demeter.
Course 3: Administrative Skills. Lessons include bylaws, boards and
committees, discipline, voting procedures, nominations and elections,
quorum, and more.
Course 4: Parliamentary Law and Practice. (See prerequisite
requirement above.) This course is designed as an advanced course in
parliamentary law. Lessons include differences among authorities,
analogies, exceptions, problem solving, bylaws, committees, opinion writing, and more.
Required texts in addition to those listed above are Demeter’s
Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure by George Demeter, and Riddick’s
Rules of Procedure by Floyd M. Riddick and Miriam H. Butcher.
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