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In addition to supporting the individual research needs of SEU faculty, the University Archives and Special Collections provides an opportunity for instructors to enrich their students' education through collaboration and partnerships. Incorporating the archives into your coursework encourages a student's critical thinking, develops their research skills, and fosters a deeper engagement with the university.
Our collections contain materials relevant to a wide range of topics, allowing students to explore interdisciplinary connections and perspectives. Even a single collection can include materials relevant to several topics, encouraging students to make connections across different fields of study.
The Archives facilitates experiential learning through hands-on engagement with historical artifacts. These primary source materials include manuscripts, letters, photographs, maps, and artifacts that offer firsthand accounts of historical events. These materials provide students with tangible evidence to analyze and interpret, allowing them to develop critical thinking skills and gain a deeper understanding of historical contexts.
Professional archivists teach valuable research skills, including archival research methods, document analysis, and preservation techniques. By teaching students to use primary source materials from the archives, students learn to question assumptions, challenge historical narratives, and engage in critical dialogue about the past.Â
Ways Faculty Can Partner with the Munday Library Archives
Bring your class to the Archives Reading Room
To view selections from our collections / items on permanent display.
For a tour of the Archives work room and closed stacks areas.
For a guest lecture.
Invite the Archivist to your class for a Guest Lecture
Topics can include: An Introduction to Archival Research, Different Types of Archives, or a deep dive into any of our collections.
Design an Assignment around an Archival Collection
Locate a photograph or object in our collection and use it as the basis for an original work of art.
Evaluate the evolution/status of graphic design among Texas craft breweries/distilleries.
Create a marketing campaign to educate the campus on its own history.
Consult our monograph collection for books related to the history of Catholicism in Texas.
Create research papers and/or websites on any of the historical topics which our collections cover.
Create Artifacts to be added to the Archives
Conduct oral histories which will be deposited in the archives.
Document a series of campus events and Hilltoppers' reactions to them with the final deliverable being added to the archives.
Photograph areas of campus so that change can be documented over time.
Liaison Students with In-Depth Research Needs / Special Projects
The archives provides research assistance for students doing historical research on or off campus and faculty should feel empowered to connect us with students who would benefit from our expertise.
As staffing allows, the archives is able to offer internships to individual students and/or work with faculty on an independent study credit for students.
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