With holdings spanning the globe, the materials in the rare book collection add hands-on experience, context, and human interest to classes in the humanities, arts, and sciences.
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Virtual Visits and Class Support
Rare Book content can help enhance your online courses and create memorable experiences for your students, wherever they are.
Teach with Rare Books
We’re Here for You…
Introduce your students to research, create assignments, or trace the long history of an idea through the collections. From in-class visits and presentations to assignments, the classes at UF give new life to old books. Incorporating items from our collections into your syllabus will spark your students’ creativity and curiosity.
Here’s some of what you can do:
- Presentations on materials either in-person or for integration into your class assignments and discussions.
- In-depth walkthroughs of course topics from the collections.
- Lecture followed by examination or discussion of collection items.
- Multi-visit small group research project with in-class presentations.
- Semester-long assignments for courses with a focus on non-traditional learning (QUEST, Intersections)
Virtual Visits & Class Support
…Wherever You Are
Collaborating with faculty to custom-build material for your courses.
Possibilities Include
- Live presentations on a subject area of the collections.
- Video walkthroughs of our holdings for assignments and projects.
- Introductions to a topic, followed by a live discussion.
- Guided tours of digitized books – at UF and around the world.
What Do You Want to Learn?
Below are some samples of activities, course topics from the 2020-21 academic year.
Class Activity
Dive into Tunnel Books
Learn about the history of some of the first optical illusions, and make one for yourself!
Virtual Visit
Is it Hot In Here?
Students in Prof. Nina Caputo’s Apocalypse and Millennium (Spring 2020) went on a guided tour of three famous medieval apocalypses, and viewed early modern materials from the Rare Book Collection.
