Connoisseurship Courses

Dive deep into specialized topics and build your skills

From Oriental rugs to modern prints, ISA's connoisseurship courses teach you how to appraise categories of items that you encounter as a personal property appraiser.

Courses instruct on terminology, components of identification, and value factors for appraising specific classes and categories of items
Provides comparables and common questions to ask clients
Incorporates lessons on authentication issues and common legal issues

VIEW AVAILABLE COURSES

Find past Connoisseurship webinars in our Recorded Webinars library.

From the ISA Now Blog

2021 ISA Award Nominations Thursday, March 11, 2021
It is time to recognize our hardworking ISA volunteers! Although many of us have been social distancing and isolating ourselves this past year, there are ISA members who have been Zooming, phoning, teaching, editing, correcting, posting and using a calculator, ALL on our behalf. These volunteers, in all aspects of our organization, are what keep us moving forward.
Using Sales After the Effective Date as USPAP Comparables Tuesday, February 23, 2021
One of the best things about teaching Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) classes for ISA is that you never know what questions students will ask. At the ISA's January 13 to 14 7-Hour USPAP class an appraiser asked when it's okay to use a sale that occurred after the effective date of an appraisal as a comparable?
Ask an Instructor: Updates to Appraisal Templates and the Difference Between Online and Live Online Courses Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Question 1:Since the ASB announced that the 2020-2021 edition of USPAP will be extended to the end of 2022, do I need to update my appraisal templates?
Hitting the "Refresh Button" - Business Plans and Goals for 2021 Tuesday, January 26, 2021
It's January, and the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to hit the Refresh button, especially after the craziness that was 2020. The Refresh button is a chance for us to get unstuck. It's a chance for us to reload our possibly outdated files and start again with a fresh look. Every January, I have a list of things that I do to update and reorganize my business plan and goals for the year.

See all blog posts