Urban Studies

Submitted by Lani Smith on February 17th, 2016
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Students create an entry in the Fremont Wiki - http://localwiki.net/fremont. Students incorporate information literacy concepts, have hands-on experience conducting research, and create actual content on the Internet [while also learning how easy it is for anyone to change that content]. It could also be a great chance to get students into local museums and archives.

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Communication StudiesEnglishHistoryLibrary and Information ScienceUrban Studies

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This would be greatly strengthened taught in a learning community. Could work well with English, History, Journalism, LGBT History, and more.

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If there isn't one in your town, a LocalWiki is easy to set up. You can also contact the folks who run it who graciously supply their wonderful support. https://localwiki.org One of the exciting things this does is to get some of this history out of the archives into to a wider audience. See Oakland Wiki http://oaklandwiki.org/ for an incredibly dynamic example.

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Smith, Lani. "Create an entry in a LocalWiki." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2016. https://projectcora.org/assignment/create-entry-localwiki.
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Teaching Resource

Undergraduate Research Journals from the Council on Undergraduate Research

An alphabetic, annotated list of undergraduate research journals that may provide the opportunity for students to use the work of peers and to submit their own work as part of their research programs.

Submitted by Elisa Acosta on August 4th, 2015
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Students interview their professor(s) and ask them to describe how they do research, how research gets disseminated in their discipline, etc. Each student can ask one question below. This assignment can be useful as a “first day of class” activity for a First Year Seminar. Novice researchers are introduced to scholarly discourse and discipline-specific approaches to producing knowledge by experts.

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• Students will articulate the processes of information creation and dissemination in a particular discipline.

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AccountingAnthropologyArchaeologyArtBiologyBusinessChemistryClassicsCommunication StudiesComputer ScienceDanceEconomicsEngineeringEnglishEnvironmental StudiesEthnic StudiesFilm and TVHealthHistoryInformation ManagementLinguisticsMathematicsMusicPhilosophyPhysicsPolitical SciencePsychologySociologyTheater ArtsTheologyUrban StudiesWomen's and Gender Studies

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Variations: 1. The writing instructor interviews the content faculty member in front of the class. 2. Interview two of your professors from different disciplines. Compare and contrast their answers. How are the disciplines similar and how are they different? Discuss the differences in the role of publication and scholarly communication across disciplines. Assessment: Students are asked to listen critically and carefully to their professor’s interview and then write a brief reflective essay/journal entry/writing response. Writing prompt: How are questions and new ideas formulated, introduced, and disseminated your professor’s field? Describe the “typical” research process.

Suggested Citation: 
Acosta, Elisa. "Interview a Scholar." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2015. https://projectcora.org/assignment/interview-scholar.
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Teaching Resource

Trinity Univ. Curriculum Development Database

Information literacy resources for curriculum development are browsable by discipline, goal, and/or level.

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