Historic Preservation Summer Institute

Catalog description

The Summer Institute is a required orientation course designed to prepare incoming, first-year students for the rigors and expectations of graduate studies in historic preservation and to expose them to some of the critical resources, issues, methods, and skills at the center of the MSHP curriculum. Other objectives of the course include introducing students to the different expressions of professional preservation practice; familiarizing them with the resources of Penn and Philadelphia; and providing students with the opportunity to develop relationships with Preservation faculty as well as their first- and second-year cohorts. This non-credit course employs lectures, in and out of classroom exercises, site visits, and fieldwork. We meet with an array of conservation professionals, scholars, and alumni who share their insights and experiences of the field and whose work reflects the various dimensions of the HSPV curriculum concentrations.