Center for Teaching & Learning

A well-designed syllabus is more than a way to explain your course to students. A good syllabus thoughtfully connects your assignments, activities, and assessments to course goals, thus preparing you for more effective and efficient grading through the semester. A good syllabus also supports students, a matter we will consider through a lens of inclusion and equity.  During this workshop, you’ll begin editing your syllabus and will leave with a plan for final revisions that use your new ideas about how the content and language of a syllabus can serve you and your students. 

During the first half, our focus will be on how well your syllabus serves your core goals and makes explicit connections between those course goals and your other assignments and activities. By taking time now to solidify these connections using principles of backwards design, you set yourself up for easier grading and responding later in the semester.  

During the second half, we’ll explore how your syllabus welcomes students, whether it connects with students as the you had hoped, how it can either demystify or complicate students understanding of the course and campus supports, and how it serves student inclusion and equity.

Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Center for Teaching and Learning & Writing in the Disciplines, & Holly Buckland Parker, Center for Teaching and Learning

You will receive a Microsoft Teams calendar invitation the afternoon prior to your event explaining how to join and participate in the meeting.  If you click “accept,” it will populate on your Teams calendar for easy access!