By and For the Teaching with Primary Sources Community
Audience: Graduate
By Sam King-Shaw In the spring of 2022, the focus of my teaching assistantship was to help the chair of my department, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, in organizing a conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Studies College at the University at Buffalo (UB).
By Ray Pun During July 2023, I served as an instructor for a master’s seminar focused on educational research methods within the field of education. My group of six graduate …
By Anna Holmes When I started my journey into librarianship, I had no idea that I would end up where I am today. I was convinced I wanted to work …
by Rebecca Ostoyich and Kevin Ostoyich The case study describes a hybrid internship/independent study course that has been administered jointly by the Valparaiso University Archives and Special Collections (VUASC) and …
by Rachel Bohlmann and Erika Hosselkus This case study discusses the outcomes of a one-credit, online course, “Stories of Power and Diversity: Inside Museums, Archives, and Collecting,” offered at the …
Submitted in 2016 by Juli McLoone, Curator, Special Collections Research Center at UMichigan IntroductionThis advanced class uses published fairy tales from a range of eras and countries to introduce students …
Submitted by Sarah Horowitz This session was designed for a first-year writing seminar called “Truth and Techno-Identity: Auto/Biographies” which explored issues of truth, self-presentation, and social media. The goals of …
Submitted by Jenny Swadosh, The New School This lesson was originally developed for teaching Parsons School of Design first-year students about primary sources as part of a required art and …
Submitted by Heather Smedberg This exercise asks students to closely observe artists’ books and articulate their observations in writing and orally. This approach is based on a simple treasure hunt …