Featured Course: Building Conservation (HIST201)
MEETING INFORMATION: January 16th - March 16th; eLearning with Zoom and Face-to-Face on Thursday nights (6:30-9:10pm)
Historic buildings need- and deserve!- special care. Join Bucks County Community College's award-winning Historic Preservation program for HIST201: Building Conservation, beginning the week of January 16th.
This course for beginners teaches students to steward historic buildings, with special attention paid to period building materials, construction techniques, mechanisms of deterioration and remediation, the building's relationship to its site, and appropriate standards for intervention. We look closely at what to treat, how to treat it, and in what order. Learn how historic buildings differ from modern construction- and why applying modern methods to care may actually make the degradation of a historic building worse!
The course is taught by Ray Tschoepe, Consultant and Retired Director of Restoration at Fairmount Park Conservancy in Philadelphia.
BCCC is open admission: everyone is welcome to take our courses. Register Here!
ANYONE with a passion for preservation and history is welcome! The course may be taken “audit” or for a grade; courses successfully completed for a grade can be applied to our occupational Historic Preservation Certificate, designed to enable students to “do” the work of preservation in their communities anywhere in the country.
The Bucks HP program is a Shared program for community colleges: everyone in Pennsylvania takes our courses for in-county or non-sponsored tuition rates (based on location).