BS: American college courses - help please!

Subject: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: GUEST,pixieofdoom at work
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:16 AM

I'm trying to find a list of colleges/universities in America (and Canada if possible) that run conservation based courses. What system do you use to find colleges that offer the particular course you want. It's called UCAS over here. Any help would be much appreciated
Pixie

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:24 AM

A Google search with the keywords specific to the course of study you want, including limiting the search to "edu" suffixes should give you a lot to mull over.

What kind of "conservation" do you have in mind? Environmental sciences, land management, forestry or biological sciences? The university where I studied toward a masters in Environmental Ethics has many of the above. University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. http://www.unt.edu.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: GUEST,pixieofdoom at work
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:29 AM

Ideally what I'm after is cultural heritage and building conservation. It's for a conference I'm helping to run on conservation in the built environment.

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: MMario
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:35 AM

pixie - we've got any number of systems to match students up with various colleges - most of them out to make money off the students and or their parents.

You are looking for places for course in Enviromental conservation, correct?

Looking in particular for any region of the US? I know Cronell Univeristy (Ithaca, NY) has a program; I beleive Syracuse University does as well.

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: MMario
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:36 AM

scratch the above....

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:37 AM

In the U.S. you should search on the search term "Historic Preservation" to bring up the right kinds of schools (still use "edu" in the search parameters). And visit the National Park Service, here or here. The Park Service oversees Historic Preservation projects in the U.S. and has cooperative arrangements with universities.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:59 AM

Here's some places you might check:

Colonial Williamsburg.
Historic Salem.
Old Sturbridge Village.
New Mexico historic preservation.
Campbell Center.
NATHPO.

You get the idea....

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Burke
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 07:24 PM

There might be something here: National Trust for Historic Preservation

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Burke
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 07:26 PM

This one is better.

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Peace
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 07:30 PM

Google the following.

Lots there from all over the place.

canada, university courses, historic preservation

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: dianavan
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 01:24 AM

Pixie - Where are you writing from. Don't you know that Canada and the U.S. don't have any history? :>)

Dundee, Scotland - environmental planning

...Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands - all are leaders in this area.

In Canada - University of Northern B.C.

Most universities now offer these courses but the best are in Europe.

d

Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: GUEST,pixieofdoom at work
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 04:17 AM

I'm searching for courses in a number of countries, but the US is giving me the most problems (though China wasn't easy). In the UK you just go into the UCAS website and type in your keyword in course search and it brings you up a list of all the relevant university courses in Britain and all your applications etc. are done through them. I was hoping that other countries had a similar institution.

Thanks very much for all your help guys, it's given me some good leads

Pixie