“Immersing students into a historic setting, complete with staff professionals working to restore, curate, and interpret an existing historic facility, offers students instruction and experience that enriches their public history training and enhances their employment opportunites inside and outside the academy.”
-Public History News, September 2010
COURSE OVERVIEW:
The Field School concept has two defining elements: that experienced-based learning is fundamental, and that learning occurs within a real world research setting. While certainly not replacing the academic setting, the field school enhances student learning subsets through collaborative and team-oriented learning opportunities. For example, students will conduct a pedestrian survey of Tendoy Park, reach the summit of Lemhi Pass, experience narrated encounters with native sites such as buffalo jumps, ghost towns, and Dembi Zohabich, the Rock Man near Salmon, Idaho. Concluding the Field School will be the last week at the Fort Hall Indian Reservation—finalizing and revising work products, making presentations, and subsequent revisions.
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