Description: This open textbook will guide educators and students through the process of using local monuments and memorials to contextualise, interrogate and extend their knowledge of historical events at a national and international level. Students will learn how to use local history to create an organic patchwork of local stories, interviews, photographs and artefacts contributed by, and for, the community… more
Description: This open e-book is the result of a project funded by a University of Edinburgh Student Experience Grant, Open e-Textbooks for access to music education. The project was a collaboration between Open Educational Resources Service, and staff and student interns from the Reid School of Music. As a proof-of-concept endeavour, the project aimed to explore how effectively we could convert existing… more
Member of: Introduction to Humanities (HUM1020/2020)
Contributors: Freeman, Dr. Evan, McClanan, Anne
Publisher: Smarthistory
Description: The “Beginner’s guide” introduces foundational concepts, such as the chronology of Byzantine history, sacred imagery, and wearable objects. Subsequent sections are arranged chronologically, covering the Early Byzantine period (c. 330–700), the Iconoclastic Controversy (c. 700s–843), the Middle Byzantine period (843–1204), the Latin Empire (c. 1204–1261), and the Late Byzantine period (c. 1261–… more
Member of: Introduction to Humanities (HUM1020/2020)
Contributors: Nash, Marc
Description: This Humanities 122 textbook introduces the interdisciplinary study of ideas that have defined cultures from the Medieval Era to the Enlightenment. We will study painting, sculpture, architecture,music, and poetry. Our goal is to encourage students to look critically at the arts and ideas of cultures in the past and to learn to write about what they see and feel. We hope students will think about… more
Member of: Introduction to Humanities (HUM1020/2020)
Contributors: Hunter, Justin R., Mihalka, Matthew
Publisher: University of Arkansas
Description: This text provides just a small sampling of some of the various musical styles and traditions that might be found, though the skills developed in this course can be applied to any type of music.