The focus of this experience is on a project-based learning effort at a local repository/museum, where students "do history" themselves rather than simply report on what scholars have said or done. Early assignments scaffold necessary skills, such as analyzing how to use primary sources to develop historical analysis and understanding “history” as an interpretation. There are incremental steps for the research project, whereby students select and analyze an artifact, locate and analyze relevant scholarship, and integrate their understanding of the artifact and the scholarship to produce historical knowledge.
View more informationHIST-H 217 The Nature of History
Project Based Learning at a Local Repository/Museum
Instructor/Program Director: Dr. Nancy Marie Robertson nmrobert@iupui.edu
Length:
Semester
Achievement category:
Research
Compensation:
Uncompensated
Additional details:
Credit Bearing, Communicator, Problem Solver, Off-Campus Component