Description
This course introduces historic preservation in perspective to other public history professions. It provides a grounding in the history, theory, philosophy and practice of historic preservation with focus on how historical significance is determined culturally and architecturally. Historic preservation is an interdisciplinary field that relies upon a broad variety of fields, including archaeology, architecture, history, landscape studies, public policy, real estate and business development and urban and rural planning. This class briefly investigates the implications of those involvements.