Students Explore Community Archiving in New MASP Course

This year MASP is offering a new humanities research methods seminar that explores archival research methods in a community context. The course was developed and is taught by instructor Dr. Rebecca Schneider who recently graduated with her Ph.D. from CU’s English Department. Dr. Schneider has worked with MASP throughout the past few years as a graduate instructor, writing tutor, and teaching assistant, and we are so excited to have her teach for MASP. 

The course, Archival Research Methods and Community Archiving, draws on Dr. Schneider’s dissertation research and introduces advanced archival research methods for the purpose of examining and analyzing the community impact of documentary resources, particularly for and among minoritized communities. The course includes field excursions to the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in Denver and the CU Special Collections in Norlin Library. The course also features presentations by guests from various disciplines and institutions relating to archival study and/or community archiving, and culminates in a capstone project in which students will examine the community impact of an archival item or group of items. We are thrilled to offer this opportunity to MASP students and look forward to hearing student’s feedback on the course at the end of the semester!