{"id":795,"date":"2017-05-11T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/faculty\/?p=795"},"modified":"2017-05-30T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:15:15","slug":"teaching-and-learning-with-sr-helen-prejean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/faculty\/2017\/05\/11\/teaching-and-learning-with-sr-helen-prejean\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching and Learning with Sr. Helen Prejean"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past five years, Sr. Helen Prejean has included DePaul University on her packed speaking engagement calendar, with activities ranging from small meals shared with students to in-class discussions to auditorium style lectures and panels. For those of you who have heard Sr. Helen speak or brought her into your class, you know she is genuine, impassioned, persuasive, and human.<\/p>\n

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Sr. Helen meets with School for New Learning and Digital Cinema classes, April 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sr. Helen is not only a force to be reckoned with in person; the Sr. Helen Prejean papers<\/a> reflect her intensity, dedication, and passion through correspondence, editorials, research files, book manuscripts, \u00a0photos, audio and video recordings, and more. \u00a0Special Collections and Archives has partnered with faculty since the first \u201cSr. Helen Week\u201d in 2012 to combine an archival experience with Sr. Helen\u2019s visit.\u00a0 Students usually have an instruction session before her visit and explore materials relevant to their course, and are then better prepared to engage in conversations with Sr. Helen in person.\u00a0 Often, we host these conversations in Special Collections and Archives one evening during her campus visit.<\/p>\n

While Sr. Helen usually visits in April, her archival collection is here year-round and available to researchers and for instruction sessions<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, this is our most heavily used archival collection, with 200 researchers in the past five years, and more than 500 box requests for materials to be delivered to the reading room for researcher use.\u00a0\u00a0 These statistics don\u2019t take into account the times we use the collection in instruction sessions, ranging from first-year Honors and Liberal Studies courses and School for New Learning courses, along with English, History, Digital Cinema, and Women and Gender Studies and more.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also worked with community-wide reading events, Catholic school classes, and high school<\/a> and professional theatre<\/a> groups.<\/p>\n

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Front page of the downloadable curriculum packet<\/a> available in the online teaching kit.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Realizing that not everyone can travel to Chicago to work with the archival materials in person, we recently developed an online teaching kit<\/a> that presents 20 primary sources from Sr. Helen\u2019s archival collection and situates them within the chapters of Dead Man Walking. \u00a0David Bates and John Gieger from the College of Education provided invaluable assistance in selection of sources and created guides for K-12 teachers, with specific activities for English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Theater.<\/p>\n

If you would like to know more about how to use the Sr. Helen Prejean papers in your teaching or research, please explore the Dead Man Walking Teaching Kit<\/a>, the 2013 digital exhibit \u201cIn Deeds and Words<\/a>\u201d, and the Sr. Helen Prejean papers finding aid<\/a>. \u00a0Archival collections are multifaceted and can be employed for learning experiences beyond the subject headings assigned to them.\u00a0 Special Collections and Archives staff are happy to discuss potential instruction sessions and which collections and activities best suit your intended learning outcomes<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information on our instruction program, please contact\u00a0Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts<\/a>, or submit a\u00a0request for instruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past five years, Sr. Helen Prejean has included DePaul University on her packed speaking engagement calendar, with activities ranging from small meals shared with students to in-class discussions to auditorium style lectures and panels. For those of you who have heard Sr. Helen speak or brought her into your class, you know she <\/p>\n

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