Student Projects and Research
Model United Nations
Participation in Model U.N. provides students with in-depth knowledge of the organizational structure and policy-making processes of the United Nations. The simulation helps students gain skills in negotiation, communication, and parliamentary procedure.
Philosophy and Religion Conference
The Philosophy and Religion Department organizes a conference each year in which students across the nation can share their research results and network with people of various backgrounds. A typical conference includes several undergraduate presentations and a guest lecture.
History Student Projects
Truman students learn how to combine knowledge from multiple areas and seek ways to connect their studies to the world. Here’s a sampling of some of our history student projects.
- El Chapo: Judgment Day (Fall 2019), a dramatic (short film) retelling of the demise of the infamous El Chapo
- McDonald Territory: Seeking Recognition in Twentieth Century Missouri (Spring 2017)
For this class project, students created a website dedicated to understanding an obscure event in Missouri history and the place of secession in American society.
- Public and Digital History (Spring 2016)
- Digitizing the journal Abya Yala News as part of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (Spring 2016)
- Harry Laughlin and Eugenics
For this class project, students collected and researched some of the major topics of eugenics as told through the archives of the Harry H. Laughlin Collection in Truman State University’s Special Collections. - No Man’s Land: Digitizing Local Letters from the Great War (Spring 2014)