{"id":4943,"date":"2023-08-29T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:19:13","slug":"learning-opportunities-in-archives-and-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2023\/08\/learning-opportunities-in-archives-and-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Opportunities in Archives and Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4831\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2022\/11\/52488719615_aa51243571_c.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-4831\" class=\"wp-image-4831 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2022\/11\/52488719615_aa51243571_c.jpg\" alt=\"image of students viewing artifact\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives?longdesc=4831&amp;referrer=4943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2022\/11\/52488719615_aa51243571_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2022\/11\/52488719615_aa51243571_c-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2022\/11\/52488719615_aa51243571_c-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in Dr. Laura Wangerin&#8217;s &#8220;VIKINGS!&#8221; class discuss a replica of the Gundestrup Cauldron from the university&#8217;s collections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Archives &amp; Special Collections Center at Seton Hall University welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with faculty on crafting enriching educational experiences for their students. Class visits to the archives often spark a sense of awe and curiosity, which encourages students to participate in active learning activities, engage in inspired conversations, and connect the past to the present.<\/p>\n<p>Primary sources, which comprise the bulk of our archives, rare books, and gallery collections, are powerful instruction tools. All students benefit from learning how to find, analyze, interrogate, and reference primary sources. Past class visits have included a range of disciplines, including Viking and Early Latin American history, typography, Catholic studies, and women&#8217;s studies. If you&#8217;re not sure our collections will have materials related to your subject area, try us! We love finding gems from the collections to support your research and instruction needs.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome our faculty to contact our Public Services Archivist, Quinn Christie, to talk about how we can work together. Email <a href=\"mailto:quinn.christie@shu.edu\">quinn.christie@shu.edu<\/a>, find her on Teams, or call (973)275-2033.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archives &amp; Special Collections Center at Seton Hall University welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with faculty on crafting enriching educational experiences for their students. Class visits to the archives often spark a sense of awe and curiosity, which encourages students to participate in active learning activities, engage in inspired conversations, and connect the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2023\/08\/learning-opportunities-in-archives-and-special-collections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning Opportunities in Archives and Special Collections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,120,123,343,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-and-special-collections","category-archives-news","category-gallery","category-manuscript-collections","category-rare-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}