Information Literacy Faculty Fellows: Final Project Submission Form: Submission #49

Submission Number: 49
Submission ID: 59
Submission UUID: ad03fa0c-0582-4cee-afda-0646295959b5

Created: Fri, 07/21/2023 - 08:22
Completed: Fri, 07/21/2023 - 08:23
Changed: Fri, 07/21/2023 - 08:23

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Submitted by: fredrikssonm
Language: English

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Title of Project Curation as Knowledge Creation: Exploring Native American Histories and Cultures in North Carolina
Your Name Upshaw, Abigail
Email Address upshawa@uncw.edu
School or College College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts Art & Art History
Please describe your project The goal of this in-class activity and subsequent virtual assignment is to introduce Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education concepts to first and second-year undergraduate students. The two frames from the Framework I will highlight are Authority is Constructed and Contextual and Scholarship as Conversation. The assignment will be structured as follows:
1. In the sixth week of ARH202 (Survey of Art History: Medieval through Early Modern Art) I will introduce the 75 students of the class to a group project assignment, ""Curation as Knowledge Creation: Exploring the Native American Histories and Cultures in North Carolina."" Students will be divided into 10 groups of approximately 7 students. Each group constitutes a ""curatorial team"" responsible for curating an ""exhibition"" on an as-yet unknown exhibition.
2. I will distribute a single primary source to each curatorial team and then ask them all to disperse around the CAB and the courtyard to utilize their visual analysis skills to investigate their source. Sources include material culture objects, such as a ca. 940 CE yellow pine dugout canoe housed at UNC Pembroke; visual sources, such as watercolors and prints of members of the Algonquin tribe created for consumption by European audiences; textual sources, such as Thomas Hariot's 'A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia' (ca. 1587); and works by contemporary artists who are members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, such as ""We Are the Protectors"" by Jessica Clark (2020). Each object is connected to the ongoing history of Native Americans in what we call North Carolina today.
3. Students will spend the majority of the class period developing research questions about their object and starting to understand the ethical and legal considerations related to information use and access in Native American contexts, including issues of ownership, privacy, and cultural sensitivity. I will be floating around to individual groups to provide guidance and research question assistance. I will consistently ask - do you consider the authors or makers of these objects/sources authorities? Are they trustworthy? Why or why not?
4. Students will then work with their groups over the course of a week to develop ""wall text"" and to create a compelling ""object file"" for their primary source. They will complete a prepared worksheet with guiding questions, but will be asked to formulate an ""attention-grabbing"" wall text to quickly engage their imagined museum visitor.
5. Complete exhibition pages will be uploaded via Voicethread to Canvas. Students will be asked to respond to at least one other object in the class exhibition.
6. In-class students will discuss the curation process and determine the through-lines and themes that tie together all of their sources. This will then naturally lead into lecture material to fill in any gaps that remain.

Through this process students will grapple with questions of evaluating primary sources, see firsthand how the process of curation is itself a form of knowledge/information building, and understand that they are also an authority and part of the conversation of research.
(please see attached PPT for images of all of the sources that will be used for this activity/assignment.)
Please choose at least one audience First-year students
Please choose at least one project category Assignment
Please choose at least one Frame that your project incorporates Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Scholarship as Conversation
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Submission date 2023-03-23