Courses: Spring 2024
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The Bucks Historic Preservation program provides students with a solid foundation for understanding the work of preservation in communities around the state and nation. Our cost-effective program provides a challenging curriculum giving anyone the building blocks they need to identify, document, conserve, and share historical resources in their communities.
Spring 2024
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JANUARY-START COURSES |
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HIST199 |
History Property Research & Documentation The methodology of documenting historic sites will be studied and applied to local buildings and structures. Students utilize primary and secondary archival sources and on-site structural analysis to synthesize a property history, place it in historic context, and argue for its significance. |
1/17/24 | 5/10/24 |
100% eLearning NO LIVE MEETINGS |
HIST201 |
Building Conservation (*accelerated timeline) The course teaches students to see buildings as ever-decaying artifacts in need of vigilant care. Students learn how 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. *** Continuing Education seats are available for this course. Email historic.preservation@bucks.edu for more info. Students may also take the course for-credit and "audit" (no grade). |
1/17/24 | 3/10/24 |
53% Live/ 47% eLearning THURSDAYS 6:30-9:00PM Zoom OR Newtown
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CLTR220 |
Introduction to Folklore Studies This course explores how folklorists and others study traditional, everyday, and “unofficial” world cultural expressions, covering various genres of verbal art, performance, material culture, and belief. Considering pattern and variation, students collect and analyze folklore with respect to its diverse cultural contexts, applying theory to real-life examples and creating interpretations. |
1/17/24 | 5/10/24 |
80% Live/20% eLearning TUESDAYS 7:00-9:00PM Zoom |
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FEBRUARY-START COURSES |
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HIST194 |
Historic Preservation Planning & Sustainability Historic Preservation Planning and Sustainability introduces students to the principles, practices, and procedures of land-use planning and public policy associated with historic preservation planning. Sustainable communities and the historic preservation connection are discussed within the context of case studies. Issues include combating sprawl, preserving rural landscapes, and managing growth. |
2/5/24 | 5/10/24 |
100% eLearning NO LIVE MEETINGS |
HIST203 |
Internship in Historic Preservation Prerequisite: 18 credits in Historic Preservation (C or better) The Internship for Historic Preservation provides students with practical training in the field. Students apply historic preservation skills to a selected preservation project. Students work directly under the supervision of a Historic Preservation Professional to develop the project plan and execution. |
2/5/24 | 5/10/24 |
100% eLearning NO LIVE MEETINGS |