This past semester, RBMSCL librarians led over 90 instruction sessions with students from Duke University and beyond—including students taking courses on advertising history at Elon University and Johnson & Wales University. We’ve pulled together a mere sampling of the courses we’ve supported over the past few months. We think you’ll see that the RBMSCL has something for every research interest!
- Advertising in Society
- The Age of Jim Crow: Racial Segregation from Plessy to Brown
- African American Women and History
- American Business History
- Animals and Ethics: Welfare, Rights, Utilitarianism, and Beyond
- Book Art: Text as Image (videos produced by students in the class)
- Citizen Organizing, 1776-Present
- Classics of American Literature, 1860 to1915
- Consumerism in Great Britain and the U.S.
- Documenting Race, Class, and Gender (Writing 20)
- Enlightenment Orientalism
- Globalization in Writing (Writing 20)
- Hidden Children: Children and Childhood in U.S. History and Across Cultures Cultures (Writing 20)
- History of Photography, 1839 to the Present
- Human Rights Activism
- Intermediate German Conversation
- Introduction to German Literature
- Introduction to Old English
- Methods of Social Research
- Native American History through Autobiography
- New Media, Memory, and the Visual Archive
- New Testament Greek Reading
- Photography in Context: Photographic Meaning and the Archive of Documentary Arts
- The Politics and Obligations of Memory
- Reading Gender, Writing Technoscience (Writing 20)
- Southern History
- Witchcraft in Comparative Perspective
- Writing Sound and Sound Writing: Hearing Race (Writing 20)
- Writing the Self (Writing 20)
Wondering if the RBMSCL could support your Spring 2011 course? Send us an e-mail at special-collections(at)duke.edu!
That’s really impressive, I’m on the board of our local library and we have trouble pulling together just a few courses like these every year. Your Introduction to Old English course looks especially enticing, thanks for the inspiration!