[025]CLIMBING THE FAMILY TREE FOR FUN AND EDUCATIONAL CREDIT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 25, 2008
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

CLIMBING THE FAMILY TREE FOR FUN AND EDUCATIONAL CREDIT
Professor Turns Heredity into History and Explains on “MTSU on the Record”

(MURFREESBORO) – Students will videotape and interview their own relatives to learn how historians delve into the past in a class to be taught this fall. The professor, Dr. Lorne McWatters, will discuss the class, “Genealogy and Documentary Film: Doing Your Own Family History in Film, at 7 a.m. this Sunday, July 27, on “MTSU on the Record” on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
This year will mark the first time McWatters has taught the class to undergraduates. “The fall class will have 15 students, and each student will make a film about 10 minutes long on either some aspect of his/her family (genealogy) or some aspect of the history of MTSU,” McWatters says. “In speaking to students about the class, I found the undergraduates to be very enthusiastic, much more so than the graduate students, in general.”
For more information on “MTSU on the Record,” contact Gina Logue in the Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.
Contact McWatters at 615-898-5805 or dmcwatte@mtsu.edu.

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