Event Title

Session B - Educational Standards: Building a Special Collections Instruction Program

Location

Library Seminar Room

Start Date

18-3-2016 10:30 AM

End Date

18-3-2016 11:30 AM

Description

Over the past three years the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Puget Sound has developed a robust instruction program that reaches across the curriculum and provides students with hands-on interactive learning opportunities. These sessions enhance students’ critical thinking and visual literacy skills while engaging students in the different ways to interpret primary sources based on creator, date, audience, tone, et cetera.

This year, the University of Puget Sound implemented the Knowledge, Identity, and Power (KNOW) graduation requirement for incoming students. Courses that meet the KNOW requirement, “provide a distinct site for students to develop their understanding of the dynamics and consequences of power differentials, inequalities and divisions among social groups, and the relationship of these issues to the representation and production of knowledge.”

Using the KNOW guidelines, the Archives & Special Collections has developed multiple sessions that engage students in discussions of inequality, silences in the historical record, and the politics of collection building. This paper will discuss the development, implementation, and impact of these sessions for students, faculty, and the Archives & Special Collections.

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Session B - Educational Standards: Building a Special Collections Instruction Program

Library Seminar Room

Over the past three years the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Puget Sound has developed a robust instruction program that reaches across the curriculum and provides students with hands-on interactive learning opportunities. These sessions enhance students’ critical thinking and visual literacy skills while engaging students in the different ways to interpret primary sources based on creator, date, audience, tone, et cetera.

This year, the University of Puget Sound implemented the Knowledge, Identity, and Power (KNOW) graduation requirement for incoming students. Courses that meet the KNOW requirement, “provide a distinct site for students to develop their understanding of the dynamics and consequences of power differentials, inequalities and divisions among social groups, and the relationship of these issues to the representation and production of knowledge.”

Using the KNOW guidelines, the Archives & Special Collections has developed multiple sessions that engage students in discussions of inequality, silences in the historical record, and the politics of collection building. This paper will discuss the development, implementation, and impact of these sessions for students, faculty, and the Archives & Special Collections.