JD/MA in Preservation Studies

Each year, selected students in the School of Law are admitted to a joint program with the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences leading to a Juris Doctor and Master of Arts in Preservation Studies degrees. The students take one historic preservation course each semester of their second and third years of law school; work in a full-time, three-month internship relating to preservation law; and take an additional four courses (16 credits) in preservation studies after completing their law degree. For further details on the Preservation Law Program, contact the School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.

Courses Required for Preservation Studies Students

• CAS AM 546 Historic Preservation
• CAS AM 553 Documenting Historic Buildings and Landscapes
• GRS AM 747 Building Conservation
• GRS AM 751 Financing Historic Preservation Development
• GRS AM 754 Planning and Preservation

Electives

• CAS AM 524 New England’s Cultural Landscape
• GRS AM 730 Seminar in American Architecture
• GRS AM 748 Historic Preservation Seminar: Adaptive Building Use
• GRS AM 755 Colloquium in Preservation Planning
• GRS AM 765 American Vernacular Architecture
• GRS AM 780 Problems in Historic Preservation
• GRS AM 867 Material Culture
• GRS AM 901/902 Directed Study
• GRS AM 903, 904  Directed Study in Historic Preservation
• GRS AM 946 Practicum

Courses Offered Through Departmental Curricula

• CAS AH 520    The Museum and Historical Agency
• CAS AH 570    Early American Architecture
• CAS AH 584    Greater Boston: Architecture and Planning
• GRS AH 782    Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century Architecture in Europe and America
• GRS AH 798    Colloquium in Twentieth-Century Architecture
• GRS AH 884    Seminar: Nineteenth-Century Architecture
• CAS AR 572    Studies in Industrial Archaeology
• GRS AR 770    New World Historical Archaeology: Colonial America
• GRS AR 771    New World Historical Archaeology: Post-Colonial America
• GRS AR 780    Archaeological Ethics and the Law
• GRS AR 805    Archaeological Heritage Management
• GRS AR 810    International Heritage Management
• MET UA 515    Urban Planning