HIST 302U: Creating a Digital Past

Students will be introduced to archival materials such as vintage photographs, newspapers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, maps, plans, oral histories, government papers, minutes and publications of organizations, as well as methodological frameworks for the assessment and analysis of these materials. Students will collaborate on specific projects making use of both textual and visual source material to explore a particular question about the past. Students will create a final narrative that is digital in format, such as a website, a documentary, an app, or a podcast. 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.