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Information about bringing your undergraduate or graduate class to the Special Collections Research Center for an introductory or thematic session

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The Special Collections Research Center welcomes undergraduate and graduate class visits year-round. Curators and SCRC staff are available to provide tailored introductory and thematic presentations on our collection materials to your students. We conduct sessions for a wide variety of courses and departments and are happy to work with you to develop presentations in all subject areas.

We've conducted sessions for the following courses:

  • AAS 112/ANT 112 Introduction to African American Studies
  • AAS 331 The African American Novel
  • AAS 332 African American History through the 19th Century
  • AAS/HST 333 African American History after the 19th Century
  • AAS 345 African American Religious History / History of African American Religion
  • AAS 402 Slavery and Abolition
  • AAS 525 Research Methods in African American Studies
  • AJP 606 Feature and Critical Writing
  • ANT 300 Mummies, Tomb, and Treasure
  • ANT 348/HAR 200 The History of Archeology
  • ANT 400/600 Excavating Bodies in the Archives
  • APH 261 Introduction to Art Photography
  • APH 564 Image/Sequence: Photo Book
  • ARC 134 Introduction to the History of Architecture II
  • ARC 208 A New Institution
  • ARC 500 Material Marcel
  • ARC 500 Upstate Modern Air Conditions
  • ART 300 Faking It: History of Synthetic Materials
  • ART 300/500 Archive as Art
  • CAR 400/600 Comics and Graphic Literature
  • CAS 100 Fairy Tales Uncloaked
  • CAS 100 Lyric Adventures and Poetic Form
  • CAS 100 Medieval World in Popular Culture
  • CAS 100 Poetry of Struggle
  • CAS 101 First Year Forum
  • CCR 633 Writing Rhetoric and Technologies
  • CCR 635 Advanced Research Practices
  • CCR 751 Social History of Rhetoric
  • CFE 700 Gender, Sexuality, and Disability
  • CFE 700 Race and DisAbility
  • CFE 700 Race and the Making of American Education
  • CRS 316 Introduction to Visual Culture
  • DFH 695 Historical Narratives and Interpretation
  • DSP 700 Historicizing Disability & Gender
  • EAR 200 Darwin and the History of Evolutionary Theory
  • ENG 630 Methods and Issues in Victorian Studies
  • ENG 650 Forms Vision
  • ENG 730 History of the Book
  • ENG 730 Visual Cultures of Witnessing
  • ETS 113 Survey of British Literature to 1789
  • ETS 153 Interpretation of Fiction
  • ETS 192 Gender and Literary Texts
  • ETS 200 Modern Horror Fiction
  • ETS 305 Critical Analysis: History of the Book
  • ETS 305 Critical Analysis: Literature and its Media
  • ETS 410 Forms and Genres: 20th and 21st Century American Poetry
  • ETS 420 The Book in the Middle Ages
  • ETS 420 Topics in Cultural Production and Reception
  • ETS 420 Victorian Domesticity
  • FND 115 2D Creative Processes
  • FND 116 Book Art
  • FRE 315 French Civilization
  • FRE 400/600 Visions and Voyages
  • FRE 409 French Culture and Revolution
  • GEO 400 Urban Environmental History and Political Ecology
  • HED 605 The American College and University
  • HNR 100 Honors Program Orientation / Honors Orientation Seminar
  • HNR 220 Seminar: Political Culture and Practice
  • HNR 340 Beautiful Minds
  • HNR 350 Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
  • HNR 360 Necropolitics
  • HOA 300 19th Century European Art
  • HOA 371 Photography and the Fine Arts
  • HOA 498 Senior Seminar: Research and Professional Practice
  • HOA 459 Realism to Symbolism
  • HOA 500 Art and Architecture at SU
  • HOA 500 Precolumbiana: Forms, Images, Politics
  • HOA 500 The Italian Renaissance Home
  • HOA 500 / ARI 495 / AIC 600 Archives as Art
  • HOA 655 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing
  • HOM 313 Film Music
  • HOM 325 Music in Latin America
  • HST 211 Medieval and Renaissance Europe
  • HST 300 The Renaissance of War
  • HST 301 Practicum in the Study of History
  • HST 400 Chronos
  • HST 401 American Intellectuals/European Influences
  • HST 735 Readings and Research in European History
  • HST 804 First Year Graduate Research Seminar
  • IND 377 Industrial Design Typography Studio
  • IND 471 Interdisciplinary Product Development
  • IST 511 Introduction to the Library and Information Profession
  • IST 622 Organization & Management of Archives
  • IST 632 Management & Organization of Special Collections
  • LIT 241 Dante and the Medieval World
  • LIT 245 / ITA 300 Florence and Renaissance Civilization
  • MPD 639 Multimedia Photography and Design
  • MUE 615 Introduction to Research in Music
  • MUS 503 Introduction to Museum Studies
  • MUS 506 Ethnographic Curatorship
  • NEW 205 News Writing
  • PAI 730 Problems in Public Administration
  • PRT 552 Hand Paper Print/Book Workshop
  • REL 114 The Bible / The Bible in History, Culture, and Religion
  • SOC 334 Criminal Justice
  • SPA 300/400/600 Global Spanish Film
  • SPA 400 Individual and Society in Early Modern Spain
  • SPA 600 Latin American Literature of the New Millennium
  • SPA 641 Medieval and Golden Age Literature
  • TRM 153 Transmedia Studio Concepts
  • TRM 154 Transmedia Interconnected Studios
  • WRT 105 Academic Writing
  • WRT 105 Writing Studio 1
  • WRT 105 Visual Rhetoric
  • WRT 200 DIY Publishing
  • WRT 205 Cultural Perspectives on Psychoactive Drug Use
  • WRT 205 Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing
  • WRT 205 Syracuse as Place
  • WRT 205 Working Lives and Literacies from a Global Perspective
  • WRT 301 Advanced Writing Studio
  • WRT 303 Advanced Writing Studio: Research and Writing
  • WRT 426 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology

Schedule a Session

Interested in bringing your class to SCRC? Contact scrcinstruction@syr.edu.

Campus Groups and Organizations

We also conduct sessions for Syracuse University groups and organizations:

  • Art History Incoming Graduate Students
  • Creative Writing MFA Students
  • German Club
  • Light Work Zine Lab
  • LIS Student Interest Group
  • Maxwell African Scholars Union
  • Religion Department Future Professoriate Program
  • Remembrance Scholars
  • School of Information Studies Prospective MSLIS Students
  • Spanish Incoming Graduate Students
  • Syracuse Literature & Text Society
  • Syracuse University Project Advance Summer Institute
  • Warrior-Scholar Project

External Groups and Classes

We welcome external groups and classes to campus for a session with us:

  • Academic Librarians Conference
  • Cooperstown Junior-Senior High School Tour
  • Ithaca College MFA Students
  • Jefferson Community College English Class
  • Le Moyne College English Class
  • Local History Summer Camp
  • Manlius Pebble Hill French Class
  • National Cartoonists Society
  • Onondaga Community College History of Photography Class
  • Skaneateles Middle School Ancient World Writing Systems Class