College Course Development

Case Study Highlight: The Visual History Archive in the Classroom

Jews by the Numbers: An Introduction to Applied Statistics and Data Science for Students of Jewish Studies

Faculty Name:
Alexis Lerner
Institution Name:
University of Toronto

This upper-level undergraduate course introduced students to data science and applied statistics, with the focus on learning to analyze data through quantitative methods, research design and ethics, and digital humanities tools. Students learned to build datasets from archival material, and to form their own arguments based on data. The USC Visual History Archive was one of the datasets used for this purpose.

List of courses taught around the world using archive testimony

A total of 666 courses at 59 universities have drawn upon the Institute’s testimonies in more than 25 academic disciplines. The courses demonstrate the range of topics and themes that the Institute’s archive of video testimonies can help illuminate. Use the table below to see what the trends are for testimony-enhanced courses taught at colleges and universities around the world.

Institution Course Title Department/Discipline Term Instructor
Albion College Holocaust Studies Interdisciplinary 2009 Spring Frank Kelemen
American University of Paris Memory, Testimony and the Shoah Psychology 2016 Spring Brian Schiff
Brandeis University Writing the Holocaust English 2012 Fall Dawn Skorczewski
Brown University Drifting Cities. Multiethnic Societies from Empire to Nation-State History 2014 Spring Paris Papamichos-Chronakis
Brown University Freshmen Seminar: The Holocaust in Historical Perspective History 2009 Fall Omer Bartov
Brown University Graduate Reading Seminar: Interpretations of History: Modern Germany History 2009 Fall Omer Bartov
Brown University Media and Memory: Representing the Holocaust Modern Culture & Media 2009 Fall Lynne Joyrich
Brown University Drifting Cities. Multiethnic Societies from Empire to Nation-State History 2013 Spring Paris Papamichos-Chronakis
California State University, Bakersfield Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning Religious Studies 2007 Fall Liora Gubkin
California State University, Bakersfield Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning Religious Studies 2008 Spring Liora Gubkin
California State University, Bakersfield Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning Religious Studies 2009 Winter Liora Gubkin
Central European University Intimate Recording and Readings of Lives Gender Studies 2014 Winter Andrea Peto
Central European University Gendered Memories of the Holocaust Gender Studies 2014 Fall Andrea Peto
Central European University Gendered Memories of the Holocaust Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Political Science, Public Policy 2013 Fall Andrea Peto
Central European University Holocaust, memory, gender Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies Nationalism Studies 2009 Winter Andrea Peto
Central European University Holocaust, memory, gender Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies Nationalism Studies 2010 Fall Andrea Peto
Central European University Testimonies and Teaching: New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies Jewish Studies, Gender Studies 2010 Spring Andrea Peto
Central European University Social Memory Sociology and Social Anthropology 2010 Winter Vlad Naumescu
Central European University Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Political Science, Public Policy 2011 Fall Andrea Peto
Central European University Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research: Oral History Gender Studies, History 2011 Winter Andrea Peto
Central European University Gendered Memories of the Holocaust Gender Studies, History 2016 Fall Andrea Peto
Central European University Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence Gender Studies, HIstory, Jewish Studies, Political Science, Public Policy 2012 Fall Andrea Peto
Central European University Interrogating the Archive: Preserving and Interpreting Knowledges of the Past Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Medieval Studies 2012 Fall Adrea Peto, Leslie Morris (University of Minnesota), Mary Jo Maynes (University of Minnesota)
Central European University Gendered Memories of the Holocaust Gender Studies 2015 Fall Andrea Peto
Central European University Qualitative Methods: Interviewing and Oral History Gender Studies, History 2016 Winter Andrea Peto
Centre Marc Bloch Le nazisme et les régimes autoritaires History 2010 Winter Florent Brayard
Chapman University Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories History 2014 Spring Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution History, Religion 2014 Fall Marilyn Harran
Chapman University The Holocaust in History and Film History 2014 Fall Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories History 2013 Spring Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution History 2013 Fall Marilyn Harran
Chapman University The Holocaust in History and Film History 2013 Fall Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University The Holocaust in History and Film History 2015 Fall Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University The Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories History 2016 Spring Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University The Holocaust in History and Film History 2016 Spring Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University The Holocaust in History and Film History 2016 Fall Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University Germany and the Holocaust History 2016 Fall Marilyn Harran
Chapman University Topics in the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Witnesses and Rescuers History 2016 Fall Jeffrey Koerber
Chapman University Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution History, Religion 2011 Fall Marilyn Harran
Chapman University Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution History, Religion 2012 Fall Marilyn Harran
Charles University Natural Language Processing Applications Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics 2014 Summer Vladimír Kuboň
Charles University Memory as a Subject in Sociology Sociology 2012 Winter Jakub Mlynář
Charles University Teaching Homeland Studies Civics Education and Philosophy 2014 Summer Michaela Dvořáková
Charles University Sources and Manifestations of anti-Semitism in contemporary Czech society Cultural Studies 2013 Spring Marcela Zoufalá
Charles University Identity Between Memory and Narrative Sociology 2014 Winter Jakub Mlynář
Charles University Dealing with Guilt and Reconciliation in Pastoral Work Protestant Theology 2011 Winter Petr Jandejsek
Charles University Introduction to Hebraistic studies Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies 2011 Winter Jiřina Šedinová
Charles University Sociological Data and Data Archives Historical Sociology 2011 Winter Martin Vávra
Charles University The Educational Role of the Museum Civic Education and Philosophy 2011 Winter Markéta Dvořáková
Charles University The Holocaust and Its Memory in the Czech Lands Institute of Czech History 2011 Winter Michal Frankl

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