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PR-640 History and Theory of Preservation

3 Credits

  • PR-640-01

    Wednesday

    5:00 pm – 7:50 pm

    Higgins Hall South, 211

Explores the basic concept of "What is Historic Preservation?" through a study of the route preservation has taken to reach the place it is today. The course presents both the historic development of preservation and the theoretical and philosophical foundations of that development. It then raises some of the fundamental issues concerning the values, assumptions, and practice of historic preservation.