Sep 07, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

HON 204 - HNR WCH The Politics of Historical Preservation in Lancaster County

4.00 credits.
Western Cultural Heritage Core Course.
Explore Lancaster County’s Pennsylvania German heritage: the Amish, Mennonite, Brethren, and Moravian communities. Students visit historic sites, museums, historical libraries, and archives.  Take an interdisciplinary approach to examining historic preservation through the lens of history, political science, religion, folklore, social science, economics, architecture, and landscape design. Learn about the politics of historic preservation through studying with public historians at historic sites.  Learn about the role of public historians regarding the public policy of historic preservation.