SYLLABUS USE and SUBMISSION POLICY
Brief History of H-Urban Syllabi Collection
How to Use the Syllabus Indexes | Syllabus Use Policy | Syllabus Submission Standards
Syllabus Submission Formats and Procedures

I.   BRIEF HISTORY OF H-URBAN SYLLABI COLLECTION

As a follow-up to the first Syllabus Exchange, the Urban History Association and the Valentine Museum published the Syllabus Exchange II. Edited by Judy A. Lankford, the second collection contained an additional 24 syllabi and 15 teaching assignments, with an introduction by Richard Harris from McMaster University. The Exchanges have been out of print for several years, and there is a need for new dissemination of the most recent urban history and urban-related syllabi.

H-Urban is committed to maintaining and expanding the syllabus site for scholarly research and interactive exchange.

II.   HOW TO USE THE SYLLABUS ARCHIVE INDEXES

• All syllabi ten years and older are listed only in the Pre-1995 Syllabi Index.
  
• Syllabi dated ten years and later can be found in the Date Index and in the additional sort lists within the Author Index, Subject Index, and Geographic Index. Depending on available information, the entries marked as "Portal Websites" may not appear in every index, whereas all other syllabus listings will appear at least once in each index.

In the Geographic Index, syllabi are classified according to the major cities and other geographical areas that are covered in a course as a topic, assignment, and/or case study. The two Geographic Indexes on the Geographic Index page sort syllabi according to the geographic scope of the course.

• The "Continent or Region" index organizes cities by the continent and nation in which they are located (e.g. Africa/Egypt/Cairo), and includes all syllabi. Courses that range across continents or that indicate no geographical focus are also included under "International." Courses that cover more than one geographical area are thus cross-indexed.
  
• The "Cities" index organizes all cities alphabetically (e.g. Baghdad, Baltimore) and includes all syllabi that teach about specific cities.

In the Subject Index, syllabi are listed by course topic or theme (like "politics", "housing"), and in the Date Index (syllabi dated 1994 or later), syllabi are sorted by the first date the course was developed, taught or submitted to H-Urban.

Use the Teaching Articles and Comments page to access articles about teaching urban-related courses, and to quickly find teacher comments included with and related to syllabi within the H-Urban syllabus pages.

III.   SYLLABUS USE POLICY

The copyright on a syllabus contributed to the H-Urban Teaching Center's Urban-Related Syllabi site remains with the author of the syllabus. For information on the non-profit, educational use of copyrighted material on H-Net lists, see the H-Net Copyright Policy statement.

IV.   SYLLABUS SUBMISSION STANDARDS

• name of course, institution where it has been taught, and class level (undergraduate/graduate)
• name of instructor(s) and affiliation(s) at the time syllabus was created
• date(s) syllabus used for a particular class, or date syllabus was initially formulated
• syllabus contents, including narrative, readings, and related bibliographies
• contributor's current contact information and full address(es) of where the course was taught
• a list of the "subject" categor(ies) under which you believe your syllabus should be included on the H-Urban Syllabus Subject Index

H-Urban also encourages and warmly welcomes instructors to include additional comments on the syllabus. Comments may cover the theoretical and methodological goals and expectations at the time the syllabus was created, the experience of teaching the course and the response to it, and proposed changes based on this experience.

V.   SYLLABUS SUBMISSION FORMATS AND PROCEDURES

• H-Urban Teaching Center, or
• Wendy Plotkin, H-Urban Teaching Editor

1. If a syllabus is in a document format like Word (.doc), WordPerfect (.wpd), Works (.wps), basic text or ASCII file (.txt or .rtf), or Acrobat (.pdf) file, then it can be transmitted in electronic form to the H-Urban Teaching Center by email in these ways:
   
   • copying the original and pasting it into an email message to H-Urban (no file attachments); or
   • sending it as a file attachment in an email message to:
     H-Urban@mail.h-net.msu.edu
Documents in PDF format must also be sent with an second editable (ex. .doc, .txt) file format version.


2. If a syllabus is in HTML format, then it can be transmitted to the H-Urban Teaching Center by:
   
   • providing H-Urban with current URL where the document can be located; or
   • sending it as a file attachment in an email message to:
     H-Urban@mail.h-net.msu.edu


3. If a syllabus cannot be transmitted in electronic form, then the computer disc or hard copy can be mailed directly to a Teaching Editor. Please contact the H-Urban Teaching Center for more specifics.