[Assignment 1] [Assignment 2] [Assignment 3 ] [Choosing a Site]
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Assignment 1
Two short essays on the field of historic preservation and interpretation
(20 % of course grade)
Part I
Question #1: understanding the basics
Read Donnelly, Ch 1 and Tyler, Ch 1,2. Write a short essay of about five pages
in which you define and explain some key terms and concepts in the field of
historic houses, communities, historic sites, interpretation, and approaches
to historic preservation.
Part II
Question #2: subjecting the basics to critical review
Read Lowenthal, Ch 6, and pp. 387-407. Write about five pages on how Lowenthal
adds to, or takes away from, the interpretations made in Donnelley and Tyler.
How would Lowenthal question, critique, or reinterpret selected concepts or
approaches from Donnelly and Tyler? How does his approach differ from some approaches
in Tyler?
Due: Week 5
Length: about 10 pages
Format: Two sections, one answering Question #1, the other
answering Question #2, double-spaced, with citations referencing the pages in
the assigned books, using the parenthesis style. Example: (Lowenthal, 310)
Assignment 2
Examination and analysis of a historic site (50% of the course
grade)
Note: Be sure to read the information immediately following
this assignment!
Due: Week 10
Length: about ten pages, typed, double-spaced
Read: Tyler, Ch 1,5,6, and pp. 242, and pp. 139-53; Donnelly,
Ch2-7, 9,10. and pp. 280-290.
Format: Respond to as many questions in “Questions on
Sites” (below) as are appropriate for your site. You may do this in any
format that you feel I s effective. Include citations as needed in parentheses,
with author and page number (example: Tyler, 46-48.) If you use any materials
not assigned, include them in a bibliography, and vial citations as noted above
when appropriate.
Snapshots: include not more than four carefully selected photographs
that best illustrate key points that you make in your paper.
Brochures: Include if these are just a few pages long, and
can easily fit in your mailing folder.
Assigment 3
ASSIGNMENT #3 DESIGN A RESEARCH-BASED PROJECT (30% of the course
grade)
In a carefully though-out, well-organized paper, design a research-based project
for the historic site you evaluated in assignment #2. This can be a proposal
to correct errors you have found, add something that is not there, extend an
existing theme that is already present, or something else for that site that
you feel is important to do. You do not do the actual project; you set up a
proposal to do it (much as you will do in HUX 598, when you write a proposal
for your final project).
Due: Week 15
Length: Whatever is appropriate to your proposal, although
it should not exceed seven pages, since this is a concise proposal, much
of it sentence for outline form.
Format: