Course Description
Preservation advocacy strategies and techniques with emphasis on application to preservation issues and problems and the improvement of individual communication, behavioral, and management skills, including conflict resolution. Beyond advocacy there will be a focus upon the ethical standards and operational practices expected of preservation professionals.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
All students are required to complete preservation advocacy
readings and participate in class discussions. Further, they
will complete several exercises that build upon one another,
ultimately leading to a group final project with the graduate
student as the team leader. Graduate students will additionally
be required to lead two seminar reading discussions and craft
a paper advancing the body of knowledge of preservation
advocacy to develop advocacy strategies and standards.
Athena Title
Preservation Advocacy
Prerequisite
HIPR 4000/6000
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Knowledge: - An understanding of the role of advocacy in historic preservation. - An understanding of the factors related to successful advocacy. - An understanding of the relationship of advocacy and leadership. - An understanding of preservation advocacy strategies and standards. - An understanding of the elements of public speaking. - An understanding of the factors involved in conflict resolution. Skills: - An ability to make effective public speaking presentations. - An ability to identify the operative elements of advocacy successes and failures. - An ability to develop case histories of preservation successes and failures. - An ability to develop advocacy programs to address preservation needs, opportunities, or potentials. - An ability to recognize sources of conflict and develop strategies for conflict management. Values: - A sense of the importance of the advocacy process as a catalyst for the realization of preservation goals. - An appreciation of the educational value of preservation case histories and the factors required for successful advocacy. - A sense of the significance of presentation and related behavioral skills to the success of advocacy strategies.
Topical Outline
Lecture, discussion of readings, and student presentations on assigned research topics and/or projects - Week 1-15: The role of advocacy in Historic Preservation. What it takes to be an Advocate. - Effective Speaking as an Advocacy tool. - Preservation Case Histories as Advocacy Profiles. - Lessons of Advocacy success. - Lessons of Advocacy failure. - The research and development of preservation case histories. - Identifying Preservation Advocacy initiatives at local, state, and national levels. - (Preservation begins at home) Review of Recent Advocacy initiatives. - Identifying issues and audiences; Development of the Advocacy Program. - Review of Recent Advocacy Programs. - Conflict: confrontation and resolution. - Leadership in Historic Preservation. - Principles and profiles.