ARC 388R.18 / CRP 392C.5 Seminar
Tues 2:00 – 5:00pm, SUT 2.110
Open to all SOA and non-SOA graduate students
Michael Holleran: holleran@utexas.edu
An overview of how preservationists practice in a variety of professional settings. Institutional contexts for preservation practice, including federal, state and local governments, non-governmental institutions, and the private sector. Tools for implementing preservation policy, their integration as programs, and their relationship with the larger fields of city and regional planning and development. This is a required course for the Masters of Science in Historic Preservation. Others welcome.
Course objectives are for each student to achieve: familiarity with the varieties of professional practices in preservation, their distinct but overlapping professional skill sets, and their varied and intersecting institutional contexts; familiarity in particular with preservation practice in the context of community and regional planning; and a broad understanding of the variety of tools, public and private, available to effect preservation goals as public policy, their strengths and weaknesses and strategies for combining them. Class organization: the course is delivered mainly through interactions with practicing professionals, through site visits, guest lectures, and individual assignments. A second stream of the class offers frameworks for understanding these various professional roles, through readings and exercises.
