CAS AM 502 A1 | Research Seminar in American Studies<\/strong> Topic for Spring 2025: Preservation and the Vernacular Environment<\/span> This seminar explores the unique challenges and solutions for preserving the vernacular environment\u2014broadly construed as \u201ceveryday\u201d buildings and landscapes\u2014that many established preservation tools are ill-equipped to serve. From triple-deckers to rural farmsteads to postwar suburbs to fieldstone dams, this course demonstrates the importance of the mundane in the built environment and how to save ensure its survival.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 502 B1 | Research Seminar in American Studies<\/strong> Topic for Spring 2025: Futures in Preservation<\/span> This course prepares students for the experience as a professional in the field of preservation. Students will build skills of communication to the public, investigate numerous career pathways, and develop C.V.s, resum\u00e9s, and portfolios to use as they pursue their professional goals. Mts w CASAR 595; Futures in Archaeology<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 502 C1 | Research Seminar in American Studies Timed for the 250th anniversary of the American War for Independence, this course considers literature that shaped the Age of Revolution and its legacy. We will begin with a look at the iconic texts of 1776 (including Tom Paine\u2019s Common Sense <\/i>and the Declaration) and then focus on four truly revolutionary writers from North America, Haiti, and the British Empire: Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Toussaint Louverture, and Mary Wollstonecraft.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 525 A1 | American Cultural Landscape Studies<\/strong>\u00a0 This seminar provides an introduction to analyzing and interpreting American cultural landscapes and acquaints students with the historiography of interdisciplinary study of the built environment. Also offered as CAS AH 525.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 554 A1 | Preservation Planning<\/strong>\u00a0 Introduces students to local, state, and national government policies and practices intended to protect historically and aesthetically significant structures. In addition, the course covers planning approaches aimed at managing redevelopment in established neighborhoods, to create livable and sustainable communities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CASAM 567 A1 | Topics in American Material Culture An interdisciplinary research seminar exploring a topic in American material culture. Specific content will vary by semester and may be repeated for credit as topics change.<\/p>\n Topic for Spring 2026:Placing Public History: Memory, Monumentalization, and the Built Environment.<\/span><\/span>The semiquincentennial of the American Revolutionary War presents new opportunities to decenter 1776 and recenter longstanding histories of resistance to settler colonialism, slavery, and militarization as revolutionary history. This course turns to the\u00a0landscape of Boston and beyond to consider how history is produced, memorialized, and remembered through material culture.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Independent Research Project Colloquium\u00a0<\/strong>CAS AM 775<\/p>\n Restricted to students in their final semester of the Preservation Studies Master\u2019s Program. Provides for the research and writing of an independent, rigorous, and original capstone project in the preservation field, with guidance from faculty<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is only a sampling of courses. Please refer to individual department websites and the University Class Schedule for complete course offerings. <\/em><\/p>\n Note: Graduate students must take classes at the 500+ level.<\/em><\/p>\n American Studies and Preservation Studies CAS AM 502 A1 | Research Seminar in American Studies Preservation and the Vernacular Environment Fri 11:15am-2:00pm Prof. Stevenson Topic for Spring 2025: Preservation and the Vernacular Environment This seminar explores the unique challenges and solutions for preserving the vernacular environment\u2014broadly construed as \u201ceveryday\u201d buildings and landscapes\u2014that many established preservation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19126,"featured_media":0,"parent":5231,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15301,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11120\/revisions\/15301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPreservation and the Vernacular Environment<\/strong><\/em>
\nFri 11:15am-2:00pm
\nProf. Stevenson<\/p>\n
\nFutures in Preservation<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/u>Thur 12:30pm \u2013 3:15 pm
\nProf. White<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Revolutionary Icons: Franklin, Wheatley, Wollstonecraft, Louverture<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/u>Tues 12:30pm \u2013 3:15 pm
\nProf. Rezek<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Tue\/Thu 12:30 \u2013 1:45pm
\nProf. Moore<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Thu 3:30 \u2013 6:15pm
\nProf. Wermiel<\/p>\n
\nPlacing Public History: Memory, Monumentalization, and the Built Environment.<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/u>Tue 3:30 \u2013 6:15pm
\nProf. LaForge<\/p>\nAffiliated Departments<\/h5>\n
African American & Black Diaspora Studies<\/a><\/h3>\n
English<\/a><\/h3>\n
Film and Television<\/a><\/h3>\n
History<\/a><\/h3>\n
History of Art & Architecture<\/a><\/h3>\n
Religion<\/a><\/h3>\n
Sociology<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"