Resources
Chapter 3 of Florida State University’s Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices contains suggestions for creating a syllabus. Especially useful is the section with examples of writing policy and rule statements, and the sample syllabus.
Chapter 3 of Florida State University’s Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices contains suggestions for creating a syllabus. Especially useful is the section with examples of writing policy and rule statements, and the sample syllabus.
Chapter 3 of Florida State University’s Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices contains suggestions for creating a syllabus. Especially useful is the section with examples of writing policy and rule statements, and the sample syllabus.
This web page from Drexel University contains suggestions to help you development a learning-centered syllabus, as well as links to sample syllabi and additional readings.
An online “workshop” from Iowa State University that offers tips and suggestions on creating a learner-centered syllabus.
This web page from the University of Michigan offers suggestions on creating a syllabus “students will appreciate and respond positively to.” Included are ideas on setting learning goals, what to include in your syllabus, course policies and schedule/weekly calendar/assignments.
An online journal publishing original syllabi, assessment instruments, assignments and activities, and articles related to college teaching. "A good syllabus is a piece of original scholarship; a great one is also an art form. A research or theory paper go through peer review process to be recognized and validated; the same process should be available to course materials. This is a small step towards taking college as seriously as we take research."
We hold students accountable for academic integrity, but rarely offer acknowledgements in our own syllabi. Katherine D. Harris recommends that educators "Develop syllabus citations practices"; "Use Creative Commons licenses on syllabi"; and "Build an archive of remixable syllabi." Many linked examples and resources.
Hampton University General Counsel Faye Hardy-Lucas, writing for the Center for Teaching Excellence, offers advice concerning the construction of legally sound syllabi. For example, "Insert disclaimers in your course syllabus regarding your right to modify the class schedule when necessary and your freedom to cover course topics as you wish.
How to extract "big picture" open-ended discussion questions (what Understanding by Design calls "Essential Questions") from one's stated learning goals, and to embed them into the syllabus and the course activities.