DIGITAL HISTORY & ARCHIVAL PRACTICES

Catalog description

This course is designed to encourage students to blend the traditional skills of a historian (the sorting and analysis of documents) with new technologies. Students will work with primary and secondary documents and also will become familiar with Internet research, Web page creation, databases and a variety of software programs. In addition, students will be introduced to archival management and exhibit creation. Approximately one third of the course will be spent in the library working with archival documents.