Prairie Earth, Prairie Homes: A Field School5th Annual Offering: 14-21 July 2013Dates for the 2013 field experience (14-21 July) are set. Other aspects and schedules for HIST 430/630 are under revision, converting from 2012 to 2013 documents.Prairie Earth, Prairie Homes is a field school that celebrates, investigates, and encourages the preservation of buildings built of earth on the northern plains. Too often considered a temporary expedient of pioneer times, earth buildings are, we argue, an environmental response and a cultural signature of the people of the plains, fixtures in the prairie way of life. As we come to understand them, we are better able to preserve the buildings themselves and the lifeways that invest them. Restoring and preserving earth buildings in a region of continental climate offers challenges both technical and logistical, but those challenges can be met. In this field school, offered by North Dakota State University, we learn how.
HIST 430 Prairie Earth, Prairie Homes (3 hours regular undergraduate credit)
HIST 630 Field Experience - (3 hours regular graduate credit)
HIST/EDUC 600 Field School (4 hours professional development graduate credit)
Preliminary and follow-up discussions will take place via the Facebook group established for the field school, Prairie Earth.
HIST 430 Prairie Earth, Prairie Homes (3 hours regular undergraduate credit)
HIST 630 Prairie Earth, Prairie Homes - (3 hours regular graduate credit)
HIST/EDUC 600 Prairie Earth Field School (4 hours professional development graduate credit)
All participants in the field school will receive partial defrayment of housing expenses from Preservation North Dakota. Details will be posted on the Facebook page.
The NDSU Center for Heritage Renewal will provide free lunches to participants while working at the Hutmacher site.
Local historical society staff from North Dakota may be eligible for assistance from the Heritage Training Scholarship Program of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Apply to the SHSND; funding (pending legislative appropriation) may be limited.
Center for Heritage Renewal - NDSU's research center for historic preservation and heritage tourism
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection - the world's resource center on the Germans from Russia on the northern plains
Preservation North Dakota - statewide association for historic preservation
In order to broaden the learning experience, participants also will tour and study examples of the earth building traditions of the various cultures to occupy the West River country of the northern plains:
Depending on the enrollment option chosen, students will engage in preparatory study and online discussion prior to the field experience and write reflective assessments following it.
Instructors of the field school are Tom Isern (Professor of History & University Distinguished Professor at NDSU, founding director of the Center for Heritage Renewal) and Suzzanne Kelley (Managing Editor of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University-Moorhead, and former president of Preservation North Dakota). Tom is instructor of record for regular undergraduate or graduate credit; Suzzanne (an experienced public-school teacher) is instructor of record for the teacher workshops and coordinator of learning vacation experiences; and they share overall responsibility for organization and management of the field school.
Who will benefit from the field school?
Dunn County Historical Society & Museum
American Memory Project, Library of Congress:
Scoria Lily Ranch:
Talking to Houses - Questions to Ask When Encountering Vernacular Architecture
Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie - guide to the DVD
Field School Journals - A Guide for Writers
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