Teaching with Archives & Museums
Session Description
This panel discussion features conversations between UCLA faculty and staff from the Hammer Museum and UCLA Library Special Collections who have collaborated to develop undergraduate courses. The discussion emphasizes strategies for facilitating course-based collaboration with archives and museums in both remote and face-to-face learning environments. The workshop was held on May 4, 2021 and was co-sponsored by UCLA's Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
PANELISTS:
Professor Genevieve Carpio, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
in dialogue with
Lizeth Ramirez & Jimmy Zavala, UCLA Library Special Collections
AND
Professor Enrico Castillo, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
in dialogue with
Theresa Sotto and Hallie Scott, Hammer Museum
Couldn't Attend? Watch the recording!
Resources
Schedule a Consultation to Discuss Your Course
Center for the Advancement of Teaching: consult@teaching.ucla.edu or online consultation request form
Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: urhass@college.ucla.edu
Resources for Working with UCLA Library Special Collections & Other Archival Materials
UCLA Library Special Collections homepage -- and video introduction to special collections and primary sources
UCLA Library Digital Collections homepage and introduction to the UCLA Digital Library Website
UCLA Library Support for Instructors
Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy (PDF from the Society of American Archivists and Association of College & Research Libraries)
Resources for Working with the Hammer & Other Museums
Hammer Museum at UCLA homepage and Hammer Academic Programs homepage
Hammer Museum resources for instructors -- including a collection guide, guide to the Murphy Sculpture Garden, information about digital collections, and more
Hammer Museum’s Guide to Integrating Art in Humanities College Courses (PDF)
Fowler Museum at UCLA University Programs -- including curriculum guides and other resources
Showcasing Your Students' Work
Check out the digital map produced by Professor Carpio's Barrio Suburbanism course HERE!
Further Reading
Resources on Teaching with/in Museums
Teaching and Learning with Museum Exhibitions: Innovations across the Disciplines, published in 2020 by The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
Helen J. Chatterjee and Leonie Hannan, Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education, New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.
Resources on Structural Competency
Structural Competency: New Medicine for Inequalities that are Making Us Sick
Enrico G Castillo, et al. "Reconsidering Systems-Based Practice: Advancing Structural Competency, Health Equity, and Social Responsibility in Graduate Medical Education." Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, vol. 95, no. 12, 2020, pp. 1817-1822.
Marit Dewhurst and Keonna Hendrick. “Decentering Whiteness and Undoing Racism in Art Museum Education.” The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, edited by Amelia M. Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, and B. Stephen Carpenter II, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 451-467.