VMC 315 - Preservation Workshop (4 Cr.)

This course builds upon knowledge and skills students acquire in lower-level classes on material culture and historic preservation. Students may choose to focus their research on either historic architecture or material culture. Those students who choose to focus on historic architecture will work with local preservation agencies to document historic structures or districts in preparation for nominations or landmark status. Students wishing to work with material culture will choose an object or group of objects from the college’s Art and Artifact Collection or Special Collections to study intensively and then prepare for an exhibit. Prerequisite: VMC 110 VMC 230, or VMC 213; or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, offered 2020 and every other year.