The Department of Historic Preservation offers a graduate program based on field study, research, and community activism, which leads to a Master's Degree in Historic Preservation.
Drawing on an abundance of local historical sites, the program documents and interprets historic buildings and landscapes and advocates their restoration, preservation, reconstruction, and rehabilitation.
The program adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to the investigation of buildings and landscapes, drawing on the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, engineering, anthropology, archaeology, geography, and history.
The Department also operates the Center for Historic Architecture and Preservation (CHAP), a graduate research center within the College.
Clyde Carpenter is the Director of the School of Interior Design.