Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence -- Faculty Scholarship

Lincoln Memorial University Faculty Scholarship Forum
Date/Time:  Friday, October 9, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location:  Library Classroom (in the Medical Library on the second floor of Carnegie-Vincent Library)

Title:  Mentoring Undergraduate Students in Research in the Arts and Humanities: The Crafts to Culture Project at Lincoln Memorial University

Presenters:

Ms. Elissa Graff, Assistant Professor of Art

Dr. Joanna Neilson, Assistant Professor of History

Mr. Wayne Wells, Assistant Professor of Broadcast Communications

The presenters will discuss their work with several Lincoln Memorial University students through an Appalachian College Association/University of North Carolina-Asheville Undergraduate Research Project entitled “Preserving Traditional Crafting Methods in the Cumberland Gap Region.”  Although this interdisciplinary junior-level course has some traditional classroom elements, the bulk of the course is practical, hands-on experience for art, broadcast communication, and history students in interviewing, recording, preserving, and presenting these slowly disappearing crafting methods.