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BS: American college courses - help please!

18 Nov 04 - 11:16 AM (#1331109)
Subject: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: GUEST,pixieofdoom at work

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


18 Nov 04 - 11:24 AM (#1331114)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Stilly River Sage

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


18 Nov 04 - 11:29 AM (#1331120)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: GUEST,pixieofdoom at work

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.


18 Nov 04 - 11:35 AM (#1331130)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: MMario

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.


18 Nov 04 - 11:36 AM (#1331131)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: MMario

scratch the above....


18 Nov 04 - 11:37 AM (#1331132)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Stilly River Sage

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


18 Nov 04 - 11:59 AM (#1331163)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Rapparee

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....


18 Nov 04 - 07:24 PM (#1331643)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Burke

There might be something here: National Trust for Historic Preservation


18 Nov 04 - 07:26 PM (#1331646)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Burke

This one is better.


18 Nov 04 - 07:30 PM (#1331652)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: Peace

Google the following.

Lots there from all over the place.

canada, university courses, historic preservation


19 Nov 04 - 01:24 AM (#1331969)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: dianavan

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


19 Nov 04 - 04:17 AM (#1332045)
Subject: RE: BS: American college courses - help please!
From: GUEST,pixieofdoom at work

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