Featured Course: Preservation Site Project (HIST214)
(81% Face-to-Face / 19% eLearning; August 24th – October 12th)
Enjoy hands-on historic preservation? Ever wondered how to repair your own historic house and preserve the character that makes it a great place to live?
Bucks County Community College’s award-winning Historic Preservation program presents Preservation Site Project, a hands-on 7-week course on Saturday mornings beginning August 24th. (No meeting Labor Day weekend!)
Learn to repair wood windows, replace mortar, fix plaster, care for wood, brick, and stone components, and preserve the character of your favorite historic building. Students will also earn an OSHA-10 Construction Certificate.
Learn to:
- work with a variety of materials, including wood, stone, and plaster
- identify components in each stage in the life cycle of a preservation project;
- discuss factors that might interfere with plans for a given project;
- identify techniques and technologies available for documenting, surveying, and/or conserving historic structures
$250 scholarships offered to all students who successfully complete the course!
BCCC is open admission: everyone is welcome to take our courses. Though most of our historic preservation students already have degrees, 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).