Charleston Historic Preservation Summer Minor

HP 2010 Introduction to Historic Preservation: This course guides students through an investigation of the history, theory and philosophy of historic preservation in the United States. The course will devote considerable attention to the history of the historic preservation movement in the United States from its beginnings in the mid-19th century through its modern flowering in the decades that followed World War II to the present.

HP 3010 Researching Historic Properties: The course is an introduction to the professional research methods and strategies used in historic preservation studies of the built environment. It is designed to provide each student with the tools to uncover and showcase a building's story in order to preserve its role and relevance in today's society.

HP 3020 Preserving American Architectural History: This course investigates architectural developments in the United States from the mid-fifteenth century to the present day and will expose students to the growth and change of the American architectural landscape both geographically and aesthetically. Focusing on the basic form, construction, and ornamental attributes of buildings is important to understanding buildings as products of particular times and places.

HP 3030 Historic Preservation Documentation: This course will address fundamentals of measuring and recording, graphically, American buildings of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The course will develop background knowledge and skill acquisition through a combination of classroom and fieldwork class formats. During onsite course meetings, students will develop skills in hand-measured drawing and photographic documentation.

HP 3040 Conservation for Historic Preservation: This course will focus on the properties and performance of traditional and historic building materials. Through lectures, coordinating site visits and hands-on opportunities in the laboratory and field, a basic knowledge will be provided to participants that will allow better understanding of the mechanics of deterioration and the choices for treatments.