[Reading-hall-of-fame] Old syllabi

[Norman Stahl]

Folks...A colleague interested in the history of our field asked that this message be shared with the RHF.  Can you help him?

 #yiv8101339543 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}A friend and I have been looking into the history of the syllabus. As we have been thinking about the purposes of syllabi and their place in the academic world, we started thinking about what we could find by looking across one person’s course syllabus over time. This can be challenging because people don’t necessarily keep paper syllabi around (or their family complain if they do) and electronic syllabi are relatively recent phenomena. We are looking for people who might have kept such records and would be willing to share them with us.   We are looking for syllabi:   
   - Focused on literacy. This can be broadly defined, so it does not have to be a “reading methods” course. We would prefer to stay away from statistics 101 though.
   - Spanning a period of many years (the longer the better). We want to be able to go back as far as possible as this would allow us to look at changes in the context of different time periods/events in the field. In a perfect world, we would have a syllabus from a course taught by someone over the span of their career, seeing the way the document changed. There might be gaps in the record, changes in the structure, etc. But the interesting part would be to look at it over time.
   - IF the course has changed, but the syllabus was adapted for the new course, split into multiple courses, or changed in some way, please include it. I don’t want to lose changes over time.
   - IF there are multiple people who can contribute to a course, sequentially or simultaneously, please include them (either their names or the documents). We might treat them as a single record. In our experience, this is how syllabi often work.
   - We welcome ANY other information you have on the topic!
   - When in doubt, please include it!
   As I mentioned, we hope to do a content analysis of the documents over time. If we are able to follow up with people who designed or taught the courses, that would be even better! If you have any ideas about where we could find such records or who we could talk with, please let me know.   Sam
Samuel DeJulio <samuel.dejulio at utsa.edu>
Assistant professorAny assistant you could provide Sam would be appreciated.
Thanks...
Norm
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