Syllabus Resources

A Well-Prepared Syllabus Can "Have Your Back," Summer 2011 Praxis, Office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, WWU.
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.
Writing Student Learning Outcomes for Course Syllabi - Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, University of West Florida.
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.
The Helpful Syllabus, Meg Gorzycki, Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, San Fransisco State University.
Writing a Syllabus, Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University.
Syllabus Evaluation Rubric, Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University.
Project Syllabus Rubric, Society for the Teaching of Psychology
See also: Syllabus Essentials, Student-Centered Syllabus, and WWU 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.
The Purposes of a Syllabus Jay Parkes and Mary B. Harris, N. Arizona University.
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.
Syllabus, Peer-reviewed publication of course syllabi, Rhode Island College.