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my name is kim martin i'm an assistant
professor in the department of history
in the college of arts
and this fall i'm teaching a course
called contextualizing covid19
plight pandemic and policy this course
is a little bit unique
15 different professors from the history
faculty are going to lecture in this
course
so it's something we wouldn't normally
be able to do but these professors can
join us for an hour of their time
from their home or office or wherever
they're working
and lecture on the idea of pandemic in
their own specific time periods the ones
that they specialize in the students are
going to get exposed in their first year
of university second year of university
to an almost an entire department of
faculty members students this year are
going to have the ability to put
themselves into the classroom in a way
that they might not beforehand
we're using a canadian-built project
called the canadian
writing research collaboratory or quirk
a project which is actually led by dr
susan brown at guelph
and we are having the students learn
about archiving
and metadata and what it means to build
something for historians of the future
for this class we're going to be meeting
uh three times a week on monday
wednesday and friday
monday and wednesday will be those
lectures that see different faculty
members come in and kind of
contextualize pandemics and the policy
that came out of them in that time
and then fridays we will reflect on
those together as a class or maybe in
groups
and really think through how we can fill
in what's missing
in the historical perspective what these
students are living through is
going to be part of the world's history
and what they're going to learn as
historians is to become storytellers
they're going to learn to teach a new
generation the next generation about
what they lived through
and also the importance of collecting
pieces of those history to build into an
archive
they're going to be able to put this on
the web and have something to point back
to
and you know to their parents to their
family members and say hey look
this is how i understood this and be
able to say
years down the road that this was their
first kind of breach into history their
first time they got to write
and really place themselves as
storytellers for the future
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