College Archives & Special Collections | Columbia College Chicago | Response 2020

Students in the Public History: Presenting and Interpreting the Past classes created journals using varied formats to express experiences from the pandemic. Specifically, each student contributed a digital journal titled Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience. Students documented how the global pandemic has affected their lives.

These prompts were posed by Erin McCarthy, PhD, Associate Professor of History in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Department, who taught the class.

Spring 2020 Journal Prompts

Why documenting the student voice important?
Describe your last "normal" day
Describe your biggest challenge and your response?
Undergraduate life develops new relationships. How have these been affected?
Self-Portrait - How has your lived experience during the first six months of 2020 changed you, made you?
You've witnessed and experienced so much, what does the future look like to you?

Spring 2021 Journal Prompts:

Why Remember?
Describe your new normal
After One Year, How Has the Pandemic Changed You?
What do I miss the most, what am I looking forward to?
Describe your personal pandemic timeline
Offer a self portrait and describe the biggest pandemic impact.

Summer 2021 Journal Prompts:

Your Personal Pandemic Timeline
My Pandemic: What I Learned So Far

All submitted work was received in the College Archives and retained as a permanent collection as part of its student response during the year 2020/2021 documenting student life and capturing the student perspective during this time.

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Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Yulin Chen

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.
Capturing Quarantine:Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Ann Fernandez

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Martin French

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic. NOTE: essay links to original music created by the student author and composer.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Diego Urbina Gomez

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Casey Groulx

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

LeShana Jackson

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Bri Johnson

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Nicole Leung

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Mackenzie Maples

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal

Brianna Montesano

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.