Brown University

History & heritage organizations: collaboration & critique

Description

Abstract:
In this course each student will engage closely with one cultural organization in the state of Rhode Island which has both a public mission and maintains collections related to history and heritage. Each student will write a profile of his/her chosen organization (history, collections, operations, etc.) through interviews and research s/he will then collaborate with one or more other students to create an online exhibition using combined resources from their respective organizations finally, s/he will critique the ways in which the organization fulfills or does not fulfill its stated mission in terms of current American Studies and public history frameworks.
Notes:
Course no.: AMST 2687

Citation

Ring, Rick, "History & heritage organizations: collaboration & critique" (2018). John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage Syllabi. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:t9a4ukqr/

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