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IU Pioneers History-Teaching Scholarship

IU's history department is emerging as one center of an international effort to bring the rigor traditionally associated with historical research to the field of teaching. Our longstanding position as an important research department and as home to the nation's two most prestigious historical journals is now being matched by our reputation as a program generating important research into how to provide the best possible undergraduate history education.

The Department's Teaching College History program offers training to ground graduate students in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Department faculty, including one fellow in the Carnegie Endowment's Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and six former fellows of IUB's Faculty Learning Community, are active in the creation of a new international society for the scholarship of teaching and learning.

With support from IU's Writing Tutorial Services, Teaching and Learning Technology Center, and University Libraries, the History Department has launched an innovative website for students enrolled in the department's junior and senior seminars. In 2006, we also began an ambitious, grant-funded study to identify—and teach to—the kinds of basic skills needed in college history courses. The grant will also result in a website and newsletter designed to coordinate the activities of historians working in this new field throughout the world.