Incorporating primary source material into your course allows students to gain hands-on experience and can improve critical thinking and information literacy skills, as well as create a connection to the past. The faculty in RIC Special Collections can offer a variety of focused class sessions and tours in the archives or in your classroom, whether face-to-face or virtual. We can design instruction sessions specifically to meet the needs of your class. And, since we are focused on the skill, not the subject, it is possible to work with materials that aren’t necessarily related to the subject of the course. Below are some of the sessions we’ve offered:
- Introduction to archives
- Finding primary sources
- Evaluating primary sources
- In-depth research using collection materials