Tag: Special Collections

Teaching with Special Collections and Archives

Active Learning for Archives and Special Collections

DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives has a long-standing commitment to faculty collaboration and student instruction, yet our own mission starts with verbs describing materials– “collects, preserves, and shares rich primary source materials”—rather than teaching.  This focus on materials is understandable, since we are the stewards of rare, often unique and

No Experience Required

Students come to DePaul to learn.  Faculty don’t expect students to know the content and processes that will be assessed in finals week when students walk into their classrooms on the first day of the term; that first class session starts a journey and a progression. The same process of