Course in Historic Preservation
Date/Time: Wednesday January 18, 4:10 - 6:45 pm
Location: USM Campus, 113 Wishcamper
The Community Planning and Development Program at the University of Southern Maine will be offering a course in Historic Preservation during the Spring 2012 semester taught by Professor Jack Bauman.
CPD669 Historic Preservation will explore the evolution of the historic preservation movement in the United States; examine the theory and practice of historic preservation; and provide a “hands-on” experience doing the work of historic preservation. Students will become familiar with the ideas of key theorists probing the subject of historical memory and the “power of place” while examining the achievements of historic preservation as a policy tool shaping contemporary urban space nationally, in Maine, and especially in the City of Portland. The course will include tours, guided archival research, and involve speakers from public and private preservation officers and offices, namely Greater Portland Landmarks, and State Historic Preservation Officer and State Historian Earle Shettleworth. State House Representative and preservationist Les Fossel, who has a long history of actually restoring historic houses in Maine, will be another speaker. As a course requirement students will be expected to produce thoughtful analyses and critiques of several major readings, and as a semester project they will write a nomination of a site, a dwelling, or a commercial property and defend that site as eligible for National Register designation.
The course meets Wednesdays, January 18 through May 9, 2012, 4:10 – 6:45 pm, in Wishcamper 113. For more information about the course, please email Professor Bauman at baumanj@roadrunner.com. To register for the course, please go to www.usm.maine.edu/online/classsearch.