HNRS221

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This course explores how our values are reflected in our heritage choices; what we preserve, how we preserve it, and why we do so are inextricable questions. Between individuals and across cultures, the definitions and values of our heritages are as diverse as their contents are rich. Moreover, the democratization of photography as both an artistic and a documentary practice has significantly impacted the methods available to the scholars of heritage - broadly defined - and to the site interpreters engaged daily in preservation and public education. Here we use \"lens culture\" (the pervasiveness of the camera in the Western world) as a gateway to applying increasingly complex heritage concepts throughout the semester.
The course is divided into three major units:
1. Heritage preservation theory, covering urban conservation efforts internationally and the American preservation movement, including contemporary issues and debates;
2. Place-based photography as a heritage research tool, including repeat photography, street/public photography, visual anthropology approaches, and evolving ideas regarding authenticity/accuracy; and
3. Models of place-making and heritage interpretation from different disciplines and cultures - in other words case studies applying theory and analyzing programs/policies/places - how what we do to our important sites reflects or manifests the way we internalize ideas of heritage.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

GE - T2-INDV (Tier 2 Individuals & Societies), HNRS - HCRS (Honors Course)

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