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Teaching Tip: Collaborative student research brings diversity to course content

October 27, 2020

Marissa Carl

Image of Philip Coker, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, taken by Augustus Washington. Students researched Washington as part of an assignment to learn more about artists who were ignored or glossed over in their textbook. There are no known images of Washington himself.
Image of Philip Coker, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, taken by Augustus Washington. Students researched Washington as part of an assignment to learn more about artists who were ignored or glossed over in their textbook. There are no known images of Washington himself.


Course content in the arts is often lacking in diverse perspectives. Involving your students in collaborative research can help in a variety of ways to reinvent that curriculum to reflect our modern world.

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— Teaching Tip by J. Jason Lazarus, term instructor for photography in the Art and COJO departments since 2005

This Teaching Tip was first posted April 7, 2020.