Syllabus Resources

• Checklist: Components of a Comprehensive Course Syllabus, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of California Berkeley. Key information for a strong syllabus, broken into twelve key categories.
• Syllabus Design, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of California, Berkeley.
• Syllabus Development Tutorial, University of Minnesota. Detailed tutorial includes examples for every section of the syllabus.
• Creative Syllabuses, Jason B. Jones, The Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012).
• Designing a Learning-Centered Syllabus, Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning, University of Delaware. Numerous examples, with steps and principles.
• Writing a Syllabus, Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University.
• Project Syllabus Rubric, Society for the Teaching of Psychology
• See also: Student-Centered Syllabus, and Syllabus Guidelines

• A Well-Prepared Syllabus Can Have Your BackPraxis, page 2 (From Theory to Practice: Supporting Undergraduate Education at Western Washington University).
• Constructing Legally Sound Syllabi, Faye Hardy-Lucas, Esq., Hampton University General Counsel.
• Student Performance Verbs University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Syllabus Report as designed by MIT CDIO Initiative (includes excellent appendix on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives).
• Writing a Syllabus, Howard B. Altman and William E. Cashin, Idea Paper 27, Kansas State University.

• Example of a detailed learner-centered syllabus, Santa Barbara City College.
• Student Learning Outcomes and Sample Syllabi, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

• Grunert O'Brien, J., Mills B.J.,& Cohen, M.W., The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach, Jossey-Bass, 2008.
• Nilson, L.B., The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course, Jossey-Bass, 2007.

Student-Centered Syllabus, Syllabus Guidelines, Unique Components of the Blended/Online Syllabus