By: William Patrick Wend
I am doing my first syllabus right now and the tips posted on Prof Hacker and other websites have been very helpful. This post gave me a great idea of a policy to add (no coming in later than ___...
View ArticleBy: Karen Hellekson
I’m adjuncting after a long absence, and I got an online-only class, rather than the face-to-face class I previously taught. I borrowed a syllabus from an experienced online-teaching colleague and...
View ArticleBy: Natalie Houston
Yes, Terry, absolutely — here I was really focusing on the policy/document format side of things rather than course content/structure — I always review course evals (I use a supplemental form with...
View ArticleBy: Nels
In my department, we include looking at each other’s syllabi at department meetings, primarily for program cohesiveness. It helps when we can make explicit connections between what we are doing in...
View ArticleBy: Terry Brock
It might also be helpful to actually take the time to read some of your student feedback from the previous years, to see what parts of the course you students did and did not like. Although a lot of...
View ArticleBy: Nels
I did this in 2005 after reading a lot and studying other people’s syllabi (I’d just started my administrative positions and was starting to red a lot of syllabi). For me, I realized that it’s...
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