Professor Gilbert Stelter and colleagues at the University of Guelph have designed this multimedia "Internet Course Manual" with resources on urban history, Canadian urban history, and the history of Guelph for students in the course "Reading a Community: Doing History at the Local Level."

When he announced the website to H-Urban in 1996, Professor Stelter described the course and the on-line materials in this way:

"Reading a Community" is a fourth-year research-oriented course introducing students to the general concepts of urban history and using these concepts in working on a local case study---that of Guelph, Ontario. This website is meant to augment the weekly meetings of the seminar group; it is not the course by itself. The course is now in progress at the University of Guelph.
The website is made up of three parts:

• the course text, which is an illustrated manual of twelve weekly modules;
• online resources, which include a 120-page international urban history bibliography, a number of previously published articles, and a database of building permits; and
• web workshops, designed to introduce students to the technology used.

We are interested in responses to what we have done so far, both in terms of concepts and organization and in the use of the technology to augment an existing course offering. We intend to report on the results of the course in the spring.

Gilbert A Stelter, gstelter@uguelph.ca