Selected Interdisciplinary Syllabi
A Note on Acknowledgments
For any use in one's scholarship of materials found on this site, standard procedures of documentation of course apply. We also encourage readers to give appropriate acknowledgment to the author if they use or modify materials for classroom use:
- We suggest you include on your own materials, "Thanks to [author's name] at [author's university] for the original version of this syllabus [or assignment]."
- We also suggest an email of acknowledgment to the author.
Acknowledging what we have learned from our colleagues in interdisciplinary
studies is not only good practice in general but particularly appropriate
given the collaborative nature of interdisciplinary enterprises. Acknowledgments
for teaching materials help to put our teaching as well as our research
in the context of the intellectual community in which we work. Further,
we assist our colleagues professionally, as universities increasingly
base part of their valuation of a work published on the web on evidence
of its influence.