HIST302U

This hands-on course introduces students to digital history skills. Students will learn specific digital technology and collaborate on specific research projects, focusing on aspects of a shared general topic. The shared historical topic will vary from semester to semester; examples include 15th-century cookbooks or the history of the University of Arizona. Students will engage with archival materials, such as historic books, vintage photographs, newspapers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, maps, plans, oral histories, government papers, minutes and publications of organizations, and learn methodological frameworks for the assessment and analysis of these materials. Students will create a final narrative that is digital in format, such as a website, a documentary, an app, or a podcast, making use of both textual and visual source material to explore a particular question about the past. At the end of the semester, students will present these stories as part of a symposium, with an audience invited from the larger community. Projects will be archived under the curatorial auspices of the Department of History.