Cultural Resource Preservation and Landscape History
Introduction to cultural landscape studies as a corollary to cultural conservation in public folklore, environmental planning, resource management, and landscape architecture history.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.67 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Know, critique, and apply the National Park Service’s cultural landscape terms, definitions, and descriptive tools for cultural landscape evaluation and preservation.
Identify key national cultural resource preservation programs, policies, regulatory instruments, and sites.
Describe common techniques of national cultural landscape documentation, preservation, and interpretation, including those advocated in the National Register’s Traditional Cultural Properties Bulletin 38, NPS Preservation Brief 36, and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).
Engage in debates about how cultural landscape preservation has served some interests at the expense of others.
Explain emerging landscape preservation practices focused on equity and inclusion.
Apply cultural landscape theories, concepts, and research to their own research projects
Critique cultural landscape preservation and conservation nomination requirements, reporting formats, and submission and review processes across varied local, state, federal, and international preservation programs
Source: UW Guide
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.67 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
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Topics
- Concepts of cultural landscape, research methodologies, and preservation types for tangible and intangible heritage.
- Cultural, historical, and natural dynamics of the built environment.
- National cultural resource preservation programs, policies, regulatory instruments, and sites.
- Emerging landscape preservation practices focused on equity and inclusion.
Skills
- Apply NPS cultural landscape terms, definitions, and descriptive tools for evaluation and preservation.
- Describe documentation, preservation, and interpretation techniques from TPC Bulletin 38, NPS Preservation Brief 36, and HALS.
- Critique preservation and conservation nomination requirements, reporting formats, and review processes across preservation programs.
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