{"id":17788,"date":"2018-04-24T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=17788"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:27","slug":"paul-litt-speaks-at-mcmaster-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2018\/paul-litt-speaks-at-mcmaster-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Litt Speaks at McMaster University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Paul Litt Speaks at McMaster University\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-240x257.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Litt\" class=\"wp-image-15640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-240x257.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-160x171.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-400x429.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-360x386.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 10<sup>th<\/sup>, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/paul-litt\/\">Paul Litt<\/a> spoke at a conference, poster session, and end-of-term banquet concluding a second-year history course at McMaster University that is structured around experiential learning. &nbsp;The course, \u201cRe-Making History,\u201d developed at Queen\u2019s University by Professor Ian McKay and now supported by the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster, engages students with in-depth research around one topic for the entire term in order to develop research, analytical and communication skills. The topic varies from year to year; this year\u2019s course, taught by Professor Jennifer Tunnicliffe, focused on the Canadian general election of 1968. Students work in teams and participation constitutes 60% of their final mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 10th, Professor Paul Litt spoke at a conference, poster session, and end-of-term banquet concluding a second-year history course at McMaster University that is structured around experiential learning. &nbsp;The course, \u201cRe-Making History,\u201d developed at Queen\u2019s University by Professor Ian McKay and now supported by the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster, engages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17789,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions\/17789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}