Historic Preservation Certificate

Historic Preservation is the interdisciplinary field that seeks to identify, document, preserve and protect significant structures, sites and landscapes.

Certificate of Applied Science - Historic Preservation

College Humanities & Sciences

Catalog Year: 2014-2015

Degree Specific Credits: 21

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Note: Historic Preservation is the interdisciplinary field that seeks to identify, document, preserve and protect significant structures, sites and landscapes. To earn a certificate in historic preservation the student must complete a minimum of 21 credits.


Core Courses

Rule: must complete all courses

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Show Description ANTY 451 - Cultural Resource Management
Offered autumn. Introduction to the laws and practice of cultural resource/heritage property management. Focus on the management of archaeological sites, historic structures, and traditional cultural places due to federal laws. Emphasis is on laying foundation of CRM practices for students interested in pursuing it as a potential career.
3 Credits
Show Description ANTY 456 - Historic Archaeology
Offered spring. Prereq., ANTY 250S or consent of instr. Understanding and interpreting the past through historical archaeological remains, methods, and theories. Focuses on historical archaeological sites and topics from the American West, but also examines the field’s global perspective.
3 Credits
Show Description GPHY 465 - Planning Princ & Processes
Offered autumn even-numbered years. Prereq., upper-division or graduate standing. Surveys planning principles, practices and issues in urban and rural environments. Attention is devoted to Montana, state planning programs in the United States., and federal programs and policies that influence land-use planning. Emphasizes skills and techniques used in plan development and implementation.
3 Credits
Show Description HPRV 400 - Historic Preservation
This course is intended to provide a comprehensive foundation to historic preservation practice and issues. Topics include the history and theory of the American historic preservation movement, identification and documentation of historic properties, preservation technology, strategies for conservation of historic resources and a critical examination of the philosophy and principles of preservation.
3 Credits
Show Description THTR 335H - Architectural History
Offered autumn. Knowledge and understanding of architectural styles, designs and choices of the built environment from prehistoric megalithic architecture to the start of the modern age.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 15 Total Credits Required

History Electives

Rule: Must complete three credits

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Show Description HSTA 320 - Birth of Modern US
(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  The history of the U.S. from 1877 to 1920 is largely the story of Americans responding to profound social, cultural and economic change.  In an effort to bring order to their changing world, Americans created new institutions, retooled their ideologies, and improved the nation's infrastructure.  The order they created is, in modified form, still with us today.  Students will explore the myriad changes that transformed the United States during this period and study the social, political, and cultural struggles that shaped the emergence of Modern America.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 321 - America in Crisis
(AM) Offered autumn. This era in U.S. history was marked by a series of crises: the contested transition to modernity during the 1920s, the Great Depression, and World War II and its aftermath.  This course will explore how Americans responded to these crises, why they responded to them the way they did, and how their responses altered the society in which they lived.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 322 - American History: WWII to Pres
(AM) Offered spring.  The Cold War and its consequences, the civil rights revolution, affluence and anxiety, counter-culture, political radicalism, feminism, the Nixon years, Watergate and after.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 3 Total Credits Required

Internship or Independent Study

Rule: Must complete three credits

Note: Internship must be with an approved, appropriate preservation-based agency or focused on an approved preservation-based topic.

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Show Description ANTY 398 - Internship
Offered intermittently. Prereq., 9 credits in anthropology; consent of faculty supervisor and cooperative education officer. Practical application of classroom learning through internship in a number of areas such as museology, cultural resource management, and forensics. A maximum of 6 credits of Internship (198, 298, 398, and 498) may count toward graduation.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description ANTY 492 - Independent Study
(R-6) Offered every term. Prereq., consent of instr. Course material appropriate to the needs and objectives of the individual student.
1 To 6 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 3 Total Credits Required