Introduction to Public Scholarship: Theories, Methods, and Approaches

This course introduces students to public scholarship. Students will learn aboutthe history and development of engaged and collaborative public-facingscholarship in the humanities and social sciences as an interdisciplinary field anda public good. Students will also consider the theoretical nature of andmethodological approaches to public scholarship, major debates in the field, andtheir own lived experiences. The course will expose students to diverse types ofpublicly engaged work, including museums (educational programming,exhibitions, digital curation); digital public humanities and archives; oral history,story-telling and ethnography; cultural heritage and preservation; participatoryaction research; community engaged research; social justice work; conservation;and others. In the course, students will learn how to design, theorize, andformulate public scholarship projects while emphasizing collaboration. Guestlecturers may be invited to discuss their own public-facing work.

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