04/30/24 - CURE for the Common Paper: Supporting Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in Archives and Special Collections04/30/24 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Free with Promo Code
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) provide students with an opportunity to learn applied skills while tackling original research questions. These experiences go beyond a typical analysis paper and instead focus on research as an iterative, collaborative process. Special collections librarians, archivists, and other staff working with rare and unique collections can advocate for CUREs to enhance undergraduates’ learning experiences and closely collaborate with course instructors. This can draw undergraduate students into special collections and support more engaged, creative uses of archival and special collections.
This session will cover basic knowledge to help librarians, archivists, and other staff in archives and special collections advocate for integrating course-based undergraduate research experiences into curricula at their institution. Benefits and challenges of CUREs will be discussed using case studies to illustrate concepts.