Critical Conservation – Required Courses 2019

For students entering Fall 2019

First Year

4 units          GSD 3333        Culture, Conservation & Design
4 units          GSD 4479*      Power & Place: Culture and Conflict in the Built Environment
4 units          GSD 4475*      Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
24 units        Electives

*Students may choose between 4475 and 4479. 4479 is a research and methodology course for Critical Conservation.

Second Year

Coursework Track:
16 units        Electives

Or

Thesis Track:
16 units        Electives
8 units          GSD 9304        Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies**

**Students electing to do a thesis are required to participate in monthly (Wednesday morning) Critical Conservation thesis meetings and reviews in addition to coursework.

Recommended Research Methodology Course
Courses that teach skills of potential relevance to theses projects

HIS-4479  Power & Place

Other Recommended Courses

History & Theory
DES-3348  The Idea of Environment
DES-3369  Spaces of Solidarity (not offered in 2019/20)
HIS-4105  Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present (not offered in 2019/20)
HIS-4115  History and Theory of Urban Interventions
HIS-4121  Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I
HIS-4304  North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present (not offered in 2019/20)
HIS-4122  Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
HIS-4329  Urbanization in the East Asian Region (not offered in 2019/20)
HIS-4374  Cities, Infrastructure, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies

Socioeconomic Studies
SES-5213  Policy Making in Urban Settings (at HKS)
SES-5206  Land Use and Environmental Law
SES-5386 Urban Ethnographies
SES-5466  The Spatial Politics of Land: A Comparative Perspective

Visual Studies, Science & Technology
VIS-2129  Spatial Analysis and the Built Environment
VIS-2415  Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-Life in the Supermarket Landscape
VIS-2481  Public Projection: Projection as a Tool for Expression and Communication in Public Space
SCI-6354  Applied Urban Analytics (not offered in 2019/20)
SCI-6322  Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation

at the Harvard Divinity School
HDS-2584  Coloniality, Race, and Philosophy of Religion
HDS-3081  God’s Nations: Religion, Nationalism, and Modernity
HDS-3256  The Shock of the New

at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
TDM-183M  Immersive Storytelling: Using Mixed Media

Students contemplating cross-registering for courses at another Harvard school must abide by the dates and policies of the school in which the course is offered. Priority for enrollment may be given to the other school’s students first before cross-registrations are accepted — enrollment is not guaranteed. See https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/resources/cross-registration-policies-procedures/