This term, students in the General Education elective Canada in the Making: Understanding Canadian History researched and produced public history posters on various aspects of Canada’s military past. The central purpose of public history is to disseminate historical information to as wide an audience as possible, inspire interest in the past and raise the historical consciousness of the general public. In particular, public history posters are a useful tool to outline complex historical subjects in a form that is clear, concise and easily digested. At their best, posters tell a great story and spark a thirst for further study amongst the audience.
Under the guidance of History faculty members Christian Knudsen, Mauro Marsella and Peter Kikkert, the students designed the posters in groups, created separate summaries and bibliographies, and then gave a short presentation on their topics in class.
Selected posters will be added to other exemplary Sheridan student works in the Featured Student Works section of SOURCE, Sheridan’s institutional repository. Publishing the posters to SOURCE, which will make them discoverable on the Internet now and in the future, allows the students to widely disseminate awareness of Canada’s rich and complex military history as their peers and the wider community prepare to commemorate Remembrance Day.
Students: Rances Fonseca Cespedes, Keirsten Kandhai, Fiorelli Lagdamen, Jocelynne Marcoux
Students: Ishmeet Dhillon, Harleen Kaur, Denise Mosher, Claudia Santos
Students: Lisa Marie Lam, Derek Musa, Romario Parkes