1. Class Intro: Ethics--thinking outside the box
2. Professional training as learning technical skills within an ethical framework
3. History I: Pre 20th C to 1030s: asthenic restoration to scientific principles
4. History II: 1950's-1980s, the Murray Pease, and development of the Code of Ethics
5. History III: 1980's-present, revision of the AIC CoE, development of the Commentaries
6. Museum Ethics: Overview of conflict of Interest in collecting, appraisal, dealing (AAM), and the role of artist, owner, and conservator
7. Standards of Practice: Working within training, experience, capabilities, and facilities, the "grey area"
8. Maritime law, salvage, insurance and loss of value, and the cost of repair
9. Mid-term exam/presentation
10. Materials and ethics: Reversibility, color shift (e.g anoxia), Calaton CB soluble nylon, gels
11. Treatment as damage: Minimal intervention, environmental control, vs. intervention
12. Case Studies: cleaning controversies: Burlington Magazine, National Gallery; Sheldon Keck; John Breasley
13. Time-based and digital media, challenges to copyright law
14. "Edge cases" and irreconcilable dilemmas
15. Documentation as treatment, virtual repairs, e.g. reversible upholstery
16. Strategies complex projects (Triage, Long Range Strategic Planning)
17. Review and final exam preparation
18. Final exam/presentation