Teaching Resources

Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving, and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. As a method, it involves an interview that is recorded and made available to the public. Oral histories become primary sources that supplement and enrich our collective understanding of places, communities, and events in the past.

As a faculty body, you are in a unique position - teaching students from across campus disciplines, often freshmen-seniors in one class focused within a social justice curriculum in the time of a pandemic, lockdown, and international re-engagement with systemic racism. Your advice on how to engage students, especially at this time, is invaluable. Below, we have compiled advice from all instructors to help you best meet your learning objectives. If you would like to contribute...

Teaching in the summer semester is always a unique experience, and in our current extra-unique circumstances, a collaboration of academic partners and instructors from across the campus, came together in early May to support faculty in preparing to support student learning experiences during the summer semester. All workshop segments were recorded and transcribed with closed captions. To review these recordings, please select one of the segments below.

Each segment is hyperlinked to a Google folder with a video recording, transcription, and presenters' presentation...