The Honors thesis provides a culmination to an Honors student's academic career. The Honors thesis should be an outgrowth of the student's academic work, rooted in their chosen discipline, in most cases in the student's major or minor. In cases where a student has multiple majors, minors, or interdisciplinary interests that are not captured in a major or minor, the student should work with their Honors academic advisor to identify a topic that is supported by their academic work.
An introduction to the theory and practice of historic preservation in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and beyond. The approach will be through an interdisciplinary lens, including architecture, interiors, history, urban planning, archaeology, geography, economic development, and community engagement. Lectures, readings, discussion, and field observations.(3 cr.)
Valuable to any student, whether they are a designer or future property owner, this class explores the challenges and artful solutions employed to up cycle existing buildings. Course materials will focus on determining which treatment is most appropriate, evaluating significance, reviving existing spaces, and acquiring historic tax credits.
Examines the relationship between sustainability and the built environment, with emphasis on construction, building operations, and community planning and development. Topics considered include green building and design, smart growth, embodied energy, adaptive reuse, whole life cycle assessments, energy-efficient retrofitting, social and environmental justice, and the role of heritage in fashioning durable commitments to place.
Seminars for investigations of selected topics in historic preservation. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.
Seminars for investigations of selected topics in historic preservation. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.
Introduces and explores the concept of "cultural landscape" and the field of cultural landscape studies, with special emphasis upon how historic preservation policy and practice regards cultural landscapes, and the concept's potential for the future of the field.
Globalization, urbanization, and climate change are all threats to cultural heritage and cultural diversity. Although it is increasingly recognized that heritage plays a significant role in sustainable development, its contribution has been trivialized as a part of the sustainable development agenda. This course will address the relevance of protecting, promoting, and utilizing cultural heritage to achieving social, economic, and environmental well-being as well as strategies for integrating cultural heritage conservation into the sustainable development debate.
The goal of this course is to assist non-lawyers in understanding laws, policies, and procedures and how they impact your professional practice as preservationists, planners, archaeologists, and in other conservation related fields. Preservation law encompasses a number of practice areas including, but not limited to land use and zoning, real property, local government, constitutional, administrative, and environmental law as well as the conservation of archaeological resources.
This course explores the idea of historic preservation as a tool for economic development. Students will critically reflect on the relationship between historic preservation and issues such as low income housing, poverty, and gentrification. It will also introduce students to the tools and techniques being used by preservationists, urban planners, private and non-profit developers, housing advocates, and others to promote the revitalization of economically distressed communities.
