Syllabus Resources
Development
- Checklist: Components of a Comprehensive Course Syllabus (pp. 14-17) — 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 Template — University of Minnesota
- Detailed tutorial includes examples for every section of the syllabus
- Creative Syllabuses — Jason B. Jones, The Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012).
- Developing a Learning-Centered Syllabus — Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning, University of Delaware
- Numerous examples with steps and principles
- Writing a Course Syllabus — Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University.
- Project Syllabus Rubric — Society for the Teaching of Psychology
- See also: The Student-Centered Syllabus and Syllabus Guidelines
Planning
- A Well-Prepared Syllabus Can Have Your Back — Praxis (p. 2) (From Theory to Practice: Supporting Undergraduate Education at Western Washington University)
- Preparing Syllabi: The Art of Defense — Fernandez, Daniel et al., University of Baltimore Law Review
- Student Performance Verbs — University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- The CDIO Syllabus: A Statement of Goals for Undergraduate Engineering Education — as designed by MIT CDIO Initiative
- Includes an appendix on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
- Writing a Syllabus — Howard B. Altman and William E. Cashin, Idea Paper 27, Kansas State University
Examples
- Learner-Centered Syllabus Template — University of Michigan
- View Samples of Syllabi — Carnegie Mellon University
Relevant Books
- Grunert O'Brien, J., Millis 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.