We use NYC as a laboratory, working with professionals & community members in order to foster a critical approach. The Historic Preservation program prepares students for leadership within a continuously changing preservation context. With a broad grasp of cultural heritage issues, law, policy, and practice, coupled with documentation, evaluation, communication, and interpretative skills, the prog
ram’s scholars are prepared with the essential practical and professional tools of the field. Case studies and interaction with community leaders and practitioners ensures an integrative, interdisciplinary, and inclusive approach. The New York City environment, its urban context, and an accomplished faculty support goals of excellence and national recognition in the field. Courses in subjects such as history, documentation and interpretation, adaptive re-use, architecture, preservation planning, policy, and heritage impart the broad range of skills in required by practitioners in the field today. Students are encouraged to analyze preservation policies and methods within a broader historical and social context, a critical approach that enables graduates to practice at the highest professional level. Internships give students real-world experience.
