SCAD > Programs > Historic Preservation

Located in Savannah, one of the most celebrated and studied historic districts in North America, the SCAD historic preservation program immerses students in a living laboratory.
SCAD is the leading university in the practice of historic preservation with more than 100 historic properties on three continents.
DesignIntelligence ranked the SCAD undergraduate and graduate interior design programs No. 1 in the U.S. for 2012.
Meet historic preservation alumnus Preston Martin.

Offered in: Savannah

Core Curriculum
Foundation Studies		35 hours
DRAW	100	Drawing I: Form and Space
DRAW	101	Drawing II: Composition and Media
DRAW	115	Graphics for the Building Arts
DSGN	100	Design I: Elements and Organization
DSGN	101	Color: Theory and Application
DSGN	102	Design II: 3-D Form in Space
	-	Studio Elective

General Education		65 hours
ARLH	206	Modern Architecture I: 1750-1900
ARLH	208	Modern Architecture II: 1900-Present
ARLH	310	American Vernacular Architecture
ARTH	100	Survey of Western Art I
ARTH	110	Survey of Western Art II
CMPA	100	Survey of Computer Art Applications*
CMPA	110	Advanced Survey of Computer Art Applications*
COMM	105	Speech and Public Speaking
ENGL	123	Composition
	-	ARLH/ARTH Elective
	-	ENGL Elective
	-	General Education Elective†
	-	Natural Sciences/Mathematics†‡
	-	Social/Behavioral Sciences†

Major Curriculum		65 hours
ELDS	225	Electronic Design I
HIPR	101	Introduction to Historic Preservation
HIPR	202	Recording and Interpretation for Historical Buildings
HIPR	203	Preservation Research
HIPR	307	Preservation Technology I
HIPR	313	Preservation Law
HIPR	322	Preservation Economics
HIPR	407	Adaptive Rehabilitation
HIPR	479	Undergraduate Internship
	-	ARCH, CULT, DECA, ELDS, HIPR, INDS, URBA Elective
	-	ARCH, CULT, DECA, ELDS, HIPR, INDS, URBA Elective
	-	HIPR Elective
	-	HIPR Elective
Additional Electives		15 hours
	-	Free Elective
	-	Free Elective
	-	Studio Elective
Total Course of Study		180 hours

* Choose one of these two courses.

† Consult the general education and mathematics competency requirements.

‡ MATH 101 Intermediate Mathematics is recommended.

Consult your faculty adviser in selecting elective courses.

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From the Bottom Up: An Exploration of Design Rooted in Experiment, Specificity, and the Primacy of Ideas Feb 16, 2012

SCAD Day - Savannah Feb 18, 2012

Markowicz elected to board of directors

Melanie Markowicz (M.F.A., historic preservation, 2011) has been elected to the board of directors for Preservation Wayne in Detroit, Michigan.
Four-state nonprofit hires Birge-Wilson

Adrienne Birge-Wilson (M.F.A., historic preservation, 2011) accepted a position as marketing project manager with Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, a nonprofit, four-state partnership dedicated to raising awareness of the unparalleled American heritage in the region running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, through Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia.
SCAD receives UNESCO recognition

For its revitalization of the North Kowloon Magistracy Building, SCAD was recognized with an honorable mention from the 2011 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award for Culture Heritage Conservation. Read the press release.

Historic Preservation