Course Description:
In this course, students will draw from critical scholarship and community memory practices; hands-on practices with documenting and preserving community stories and oral histories; classroom discussions; and community-focused assignments to develop an understanding of community-based archives and museums as knowledge domains. Students will be introduced to the concept of “research with respect” to develop practical strategies for working within community-focused archives and museum contexts to: identify records, artifacts, and their creation; document their activities; collect, manage, display, make accessible, and preserve records and other historical and cultural material.
