Historic Preservation Certificate
The Historic Preservation Certificate provides professionals and community advocates with a structured introduction to the history, theory, documentation, and practice of historic preservation. Participants will build a foundation in the preservation field while exploring the built environment of the United States, methods for researching and interpreting historic places, and the professional tools, policies, and standards used to protect and manage historic resources.
To earn the Historic Preservation Certificate, participants must successfully complete all four required courses. Courses are offered across the fall and spring terms and award CEUs upon successful completion.
Required courses include:
LARC2550C: Introduction to Historic Preservation
Offered Fall Term
An overview of the history, theory, and practice of historic preservation in the United States, including preservation organizations, policies, programs, legal frameworks, career pathways, and emerging issues in the field.
CAA3800C: United States History of the Built Environment
Offered Fall Term
An introduction to the history of the built environment in the United States from the pre-colonial period to the present, with a focus on American architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, urbanism, terminology, and social and cultural context.
LARC3420C: Documenting and Interpreting the Built Environment
Offered Spring Term
An introduction to research methods and documentation techniques used to study, record, and interpret buildings, districts, and landscapes, including archival research, field methods, property histories, and public interpretation.
CAA4800C: Applied Historic Preservation Practice
Offered Spring Term
An introduction to professional work in historic preservation practice, including preservation documentation, certified local governments, GIS, historic tax credits, local preservation commissions, planning, the National Register of Historic Places, nonprofits, the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards, and Section 106.