The College of Architecture and Planning has been committed to preserving and improving the built environment since its inception in 1966. Courses directed toward historic preservation have been developed for graduate students majoring in historic preservation or pursuing preservation options as well as for undergraduates studying architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture. The faculty includes both scholars and experienced practitioners. The college enjoys modern facilities including an extensive library, slide collection, historic drawing archives, historic preservation laboratory, well-equipped computer laboratories, and Center for Energy Research.

Participation in preservation-related community and state activities is encouraged and students are invited to use real projects as case studies. The college promotes heritage conservation throughout the state under auspices of the Community-Based Projects program, the Muncie Urban Design Studio, and the Preservation Design Studio.

Students in the historic preservation program are exposed to a variety of preservation organizations and speakers. The college's Guest Lecture program features experts in many aspects of historic preservation from throughout the country and from overseas. Staff members from the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology and from Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana serve as guest speakers or adjunct members of the faculty.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
The M. S. in Historic Preservation is a two-year degree program.* First-year courses emphasize basic theories, concepts, and supervised field experience. An internship, typically undertaken during the summer, provides firsthand experience outside the classroom. In the second year, students have an opportunity to examine more technical or specialized areas of interest and to bring these experiences to bear on the required thesis or creative project.

The curriculum consists of 56 semester hours of graduate credit. It includes 22 hours of core courses in historic preservation; a 4-hour internship; 6 hours of core courses in the history of architecture; one additional course (an elective, 3 hours) in the areas of history of architecture, historic landscape preservation, or history of urban form; 12 hours of courses giving direction to the preparation of the Master's thesis or creative project, including the topic selection, proposal preparation, principal research, and writing the thesis or project report; and 9 hours of electives outside the historic preservation field. The selection of electives is to be made in consultation with the program director.

INTERNSHIP
Students arrange their own internship with the assistance and approval of the program director. The internship period is ten weeks of full-time employment or 400 hours of continuous part-time employment served with an agency, firm, institution, or organization engaged in professional preservation work at the national, state, or local level. The work may be paid or voluntary.

"Preservation work" is interpreted broadly. Internship activities might involve historical research, historic resource surveys, preservation planning, outreach programs, historic site interpretation, or restoration, for example. Potential employers include state historic preservation offices, historic preservation commissions, preservation advocacy organizations, historical societies, historic sites and museums, restoration contractors, architectural and landscape architectural firms, consultants, and local plan commissions.

THESIS OR CREATIVE PROJECT
A thesis or creative project is required for completion of the degree. The thesis or creative project must demonstrate the student's ability to design and carry out a research project of current significance to historic preservation. The new curriculum provides a four-semester sequence that assists each student in completing the thesis or project within the two year period of the degree.