- James Lang’s Promises & Responsibilities Syllabus Model
- An excellent model to follow
- Syllabus checklist
- From Hunter College: Learner-centered, clean and to the point
- If Your Syllabus Could Talk
- Useful discussion of what our syllabi say about us as instructors, what we value and why we are there and how students respond. A bit lengthy, but goes into some detail about a horrible syllabus and a very good one.
- 11 Fast Syllabus Hacks
- Simple, fast, easy ways to help you design your syllabus
- Creative Approaches to the Syllabus
- Interesting syllabi, great if you want inspiration for including a visual element.
- Syllabus Tutorial
- Step by step guide on how to build a syllabus. Text heavy, but very thorough & gives good weight to how important this document is.
- On Designing a Course (as a grad student)
- Personal blog post about the rollercoaster of designing a course from scratch.
- Syllabus Plagiarism
- Very interesting discussion whether it is possible to plagiarize a syllabus, with connections to the feminization of teaching and copyright law. An interesting debate in this era of “remixing” materials.
- Syllabus Makeover
- Taking principles of web design and applying them to syllabus design. Not necessarily a useful place to start, but eventually we should all be considering this.
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