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SCUA INSTRUCTION – Winter 2024/25
SCUA staff teach class sessions across many campus departments and programs, incorporating primary sources from our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from “hands-on” experiences with archival materials. Some of the notable classes and instructional opportunities this quarter include: Art 344: Imaging I Undergraduate students in Kelley O’Brien’s ART 344 Imaging I […]
SCUA Instruction: Fall 2024
SCUA staff continued to teach classes and workshops throughout the fall, incorporating primary sources from across our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from a “hands-on” experience with archival materials. Some of the notable classes and instructional opportunities this fall include: 2024 MFA Cohort Visit The incoming MFA students visited SCUA at […]
Instruction: Summer 2024
KIN Ed Students Visit SCUA In June, SCUA hosted a group of KIN Ed students who were visiting campus for their in-person orientation. They viewed a pop-up exhibit and heard a presentation by Kathelene McCarty Smith related to the history of physical education at UNC Greensboro. The exhibit included early gym suits, artifacts, and images, […]
Instruction: Spring 2024
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives has a strong commitment to student outreach and instruction, teaching up to 120 instructional sessions per year. SCUA’s class sessions often incorporate a PowerPoint presentation, a “pop-up” display of related archival material, and a hands-on primary source analysis. This exercise integrates a variety of items from […]
SCUA INSTRUCTION: SUMMER 2023
SCUA staff continue to teach classes and give workshops throughout the summer, incorporating primary sources from across our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from “hands-on” experience with archival materials. Some of the notable classes and instructional opportunities this summer include: CHANCE Camp Summer 2023 During their weeklong camp on the UNCG […]
SCUA Instruction: Spring 2023
SCUA staff taught approximately 75 classes and workshops sessions in the Spring 2023 semester, reaching over 1500 students, and incorporating primary sources from across our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from “hands-on” experience with archival materials. Some of the notable classes this quarter include: “Something Happened Here” On Thursday, April 20th, […]
U.S. Army USAREUR Race Relations School Training Materials 1972-1974
by Matthew McCarthy SCUA is pleased to highlight a recent acquisition for the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project. SCUA’s acquisition includes two binders filled to the brim with an array of training materials an African American female student used for extensive training and later as an instructor for the U.S. Army’s Racial Awareness […]
Discovering the Artists’ Books Collection at UNCG
by Suzanne Sawyer Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) began collecting artists’ books in earnest during the 1970s. Within the collection, which falls under SCUA’s larger Book Arts Collection, are a rich variety of items by various book artists. The collection includes many different book structures and the content spans many different […]
The Women Veterans Historical Project Meets Innovative Instruction
by Beth Ann Koelsch Cindy Damm McPeters (PhD Candidate) who received the 2020-2021 Hephzibah Roskelly Award for Pedagogical Innovation at UNCG, has been working with me to integrate materials from the Women Veterans Historical Project into her undergraduate classes since 2018. The award “recognizes outstanding and inventive pedagogical practice in an undergraduate academic writing course. […]