HISTORY OF WISCONSIN ARCHITECTURE, 1800-PRESENT
Introduces methods of studying historical architecture through a focused examination of buildings across the state of Wisconsin. Learn about particular building features, building types, and methods of approaching buildings through a tight focus on a bounded geographical realm. This geographical focus allows for in-depth analysis and research of buildings.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and identify features and traits of Wisconsin’s architecture from the nineteenth century to the present Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe these features, components, and traits and buildings and cultural landscapes more broadly using vocabulary and methods of architectural history that are applicable to Wisconsin buildings (and beyond) Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret examples of Wisconsin’s buildings using tools, methods, and scholarship from anthropology, history, American studies, cultural geography, landscape architecture, folklore, and material culture, among others, that helps give them meaning and significance to buildings Audience: Undergraduate 4. Produce an original digital project focused on describing, analyzing, and researching a building around them that enlists skills acquired over the course Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and identify features and traits of Wisconsin’s architecture from the nineteenth century to the present Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe these features, components, and traits and buildings and cultural landscapes more broadly using vocabulary and methods of architectural history that are applicable to Wisconsin buildings (and beyond) Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret examples of Wisconsin’s buildings using tools, methods, and scholarship from anthropology, history, American studies, cultural geography, landscape architecture, folklore, and material culture, among others, that helps give them meaning and significance to buildings Audience: Undergraduate 4. Produce an original digital project focused on describing, analyzing, and researching a building around them that enlists skills acquired over the course Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027