The Private Archives Course is divided into two Modules: the first relates to family archives and business archives and the second to personal archives with a particular focus on artist and author archives.
Learning Objectives
It pursues the objective of showing a general overview of the complex world of private archives and of providing the student with the tools that enable them to acquire critical, methodological and scientific skills in reference to the organization of documentation, the creation of accompanying tools, and use. to the enhancement of these archival types.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite for attending lectures is the knowledge of general archival skills.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons
Further information
Disabled students or students with learning disabilities are invited to contact the "UNIFI Include" desk for instructions on how to achieve the learning objectives in the most appropriate way for their specific needs. The agreed measures must be shared with the teacher in due time.
Type of Assessment
The exam consists of an oral interview to assess the knowledge of the topics discussed during the lessons and the recommended bibliography, and the critical and methodological abilities developed by the student.
We will evaluate:
- Mastery of content
- The ability to summarize and analyze themes and concepts
- The ability to know how to express adequately and with appropriate language to the subject treated.
"Students with disabilities or DSA or temporarily unable for health reasons to take the exam in the prescribed manner are invited to contact the Unifi includes desk in order to be able to fulfill in the most satisfactory manner an educational path adapted to their needs and to take advantage of the most suitable compensatory/exempt measures.
These measures should then be shared with the teachers concerned in a timely manner."