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Historic Preservation and Community Planning Major

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Major Hours: 39

Major Requirements:

Required courses:

HPCP 199

Introduction to Historic Preservation

HPCP 299

Preservation Planning Studio

HIST 211

American Urban History or

ARTH 265

The City as a Work of Art

ARTH 335

History of American Architecture

ARTH 338

American Vernacular Architecture and Material Culture

URST 310

Urban Planning

HPCP 410

Internship (also satisfied by HIST 496 Field Internship or URST 400 Practicum)

HPCP 415

Senior Paper/Senior Studio

Two courses selected from the following:

ARTH 105

Introduction to Architectural History

HPCP 275

History of Land Design (cross-listed as ARTH 275)

HPCP 305

Building Pathology

HPCP 315

Urban Design Studio

HPCP 319

Architectural Design Studio

HPCP 375

Landscape Design Studio

HPCP 420

Preservation Law and Economics

HIST 323

Society and Culture of Early Charleston

Electives: nine credit hours from the following:

ANTH 202

Archaeology

ANTH 351

Urban Anthropology

ANTH 493

Field School in Archaeology (eight credits would satisfy core internship requirement)

ARTH 260

Buildings, Manners, and Laws: Charleston Architecture and Culture

ARTH 333

Traditional Design in Charleston

ARTH 394

18th- and 19th-Century Architecture

ARTH 395

20th-Century Architecture

ARTS 119

Drawing I

ARTS 215

Photography I

ECON 307

Urban Economics

HIST 214

American Ethnic History: 1607 to Present

HIST 216

African American History

HIST 217

African American History

HIST 221

Women in the U.S.

HIST 222

History of South Carolina

HIST 224

History of the South to 1865

HIST 225

History of the South since 1865

HIST 256

History of Science and Technology

HIST 301

Colonial America, 1585–1763

HIST 303

History of the United States: The Young Republic, 1800–1845

HIST 304

History of the United States 1845–1877

HIST 305

History of the United States 1877–1918

HIST 306

History of the United States 1918–1945

HIST 307

History of the United States 1945–Present

HIST 354

Tudor England, 1485–1603

HIST 355

Stuart England, 1603–1714

HIST 356

Georgian Britain

HIST 357

Victorian Britain

HPCP 290

Special Topics in Historic Preservation

HPCP 298

AutoCad and Photoshop for Preservations

HPCP 339

History of American Interiors (cross-listed as ARTH 339)

HPCP 340

Special Topics in Historic Preservation

HPCP 418

Preservation Law

HPCP 419

Preservation Economics

ARTH 490

Independent Study

POLS 305

Urbanization and Urban Geography

POLS 381

Urban Government and Politics

URST 201

Introduction to Urban Studies

Also relevant special topics courses in art history, history, political science, and urban studies.