ARST 575L (3) Archivography

PREREQUISITES:

MLIS students: Completion of the MLIS Core courses and LIBR 516, plus permission of the instructor

MAS and Dual students: Completion of the “Term 1” MAS Core courses

GOAL: The goal of this course is to develop a critical understanding of the writing about archives and archival science by examining its history and currents, as well as the use of terminology in different countries and times.

OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

1. demonstrate through class discussion and the final essay knowledge of the development of literature about archives through the centuries (4.1; 5.3)
2. recognize the roots of concepts, principles and theories we use today and evaluate their impact on archival methods (1.4; 5.3)
3. synthetize and evaluate the impact of juridical systems, history and culture on the type of scholarship produced in different countries (4.1; 4.2)
4. relate theoretical and methodological ideas to the context in which they were developed (4.2; 5.3)

COURSE TOPICS:

1. Doctrine and jurisprudence about archives from ancient Rome to the 18^thcentury
2. From a legal to a cultural view of archives: from the second half of the 18^thcentury to the end of the 19^th century
3. The nationality principle and the development of archival science in the 19^thcentury
4. The building of archival theory in the European and Latin American literature in the 20^thcentury
5. Archival theory disrupted: American, Australian and Canadian literature in the 20^thcentury
6. The impact of academia and scholarly archival research on the development of scholarship in archival science in North America in the 20^thand 21^st centuries
7. Currents of thinking in contemporary archival literature: The 21^st century