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Collaborative Research (continued)
Skidmore students and their professors have worked together
on numerous research projects. This kind of high-level scholarship
does more than enhances a student's understanding in a given
disipline; the practical, hands-on experience and "real-world"
accomplishment also instill a sense of confidence that will
benefit a graduate in any career. Projects from recent years
appear below, arranged by academic area.
Project: Better Ways for Students
to Learn and Faculty to Teach the History of the American Civil
War and Reconstruction Era Participants: Professor Tadahisa Kuroda and Kenneth Hardy
'01 Plan: The project has three immediate goals: (1) creating
case studies with document and image sets, (2) posting them
on a course Web site, and (3) using all these materials in the
Civil War and Reconstruction course in future years and thereafter.
The project can be the start for a Skidmore-based American history
collection, akin to that at Furman University [www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/].
The Furman site includes select government documents, newspaper
editorials, and census records. Access to these sources encourages
students to ask fresh questions and make connections that get
beyond standard historical accounts. In this respect, the project
hopes to get students to view history as something beyond memorization
of received knowledge.
Creative Thought Matters.
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