Course Description
Identification, assessment, and documentation of cultural resources at all scales from historic interiors and individual sites to distinct districts and entire townscapes.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
All students are required to complete historic landscape
management theory and practice readings and participate in class
discussions. Further, they will complete several exercises that
build upon one another, ultimately leading to a group final
project. Graduate students will additionally be required to lead
two seminar reading discussions and craft a paper advancing
the body of knowledge of historic cultural resources addressing
adaptive management, resilience, and/or sustainability.
Athena Title
Cultural Resource Assessment
Prerequisite
HIPR 4000/6000
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Knowledge: An understanding of the National Register process. An understanding of how to conduct a historic resource survey as well as the various uses of the survey process. An understanding of the significance or integrity of historic resources. An understanding of the impact of change, or new additions, upon historic properties. Skills: An ability to evaluate the environmental character of places. An ability to undertake and coordinate historic resource surveys. An ability to develop a National Register nomination. An ability to evaluate the impact of new additions to historic property and determine compatibility with the Secretary's Standards. An ability to make a case for the nomination of properties to the National Register, consistent with state historic preservation division requirements. Values: A sense of the importance of research and documentation in determining the historic significance of resources. A sense of the responsibility of society for the protection of the physical integrity of historic places.
Topical Outline
Week: 1. The National Register Program and the State Review Board Process 2. National Register Research and Documentation Methodology and Nomination Factors 3. Survey Methodology, Standards, and Application Site, Neighborhood, and Community Levels/Practicum 4. Community Reconnaissance Surveys/Practicum 5. Community Survey Practicum w. Second-Year Students 6. Storefront Facade Evolution, Evaluation of Storefront change, and storefront Rehabilitation/Practicum 7. Changes to Historic Buildings and the Secretary's Standards for Evaluation of Change/Practicum 8. The Evolution of Historic Furnishings 9. Field Trip for the study of Southern Decorative Arts at the Museum of Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) and Charleston 10. A survey of Historic House Interiors and Furnishings in Athens 11. Establishing National Register District Boundaries 12. The two Philosophies of Additions within Historic Areas: Replication vs the living City Concept 13/14. National register Nomination Development 15. Student Research Project Presentations
Syllabus