HIST210 Historic Preservation Field Studies

Department of Social & Behavioral Science: Historic Preservation

1. Course Number and Title

   HIST210 Historic Preservation Field Studies

2. Number of Credits

   3 credits

3. Minimum Number of Instructional Minutes Per Semester

   2250

4. Prerequisites

   None

   Corequisites

   None

5. Other Pertinent Information

   This course will offer a different emphasis each semester. See course description.

6. Catalog Course Description

   This course will offer a different emphasis each semester. Barns in Bucks County and Architectural Preservation in England have been studied in past years as important aspects of preservation history.

7. Required Course Content and Direction

   1. Learning Goals:

      1. To teach the use of primary resources in gathering information about barns in Bucks County.
      2. To research and develop a written paper on at least five barns with proper documentation that will identify adaptive-use situations.
      3. To do an oral presentation of the research to the class.

   2. Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities:

      1. Historic Background: 18th to 20th century
      2. Barn types
      3. Documentation of historic barns
      4. Field trips to historic barns/farms
      5. Barns today and tomorrow
         1. adaptive reuse of barns zoning issues
         2. zoning issues

   3. Assessment Methods for Core Learning Goals:

   4. Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Students:

      Class materials selected by individual instructors for the course. Details are provided to the students by each instructor, and included on the instructor�s course format distributed to students.

8. Teaching Methods Employed

   Field trips, discussions, slides, video, and oral reports

Review/Approval Date - 2/99