LibGuides: CTL Faculty Development: Your Students & the Syllabus

SYL, Syllabi Repository, Syllabus Guidelines, Template, and Course Profiles

STLCC Syllabi Repository for Dual Credit and Off Site Courses
This repository is intended to assist St. Louis Community College:
- Maintain an archive of syllabi used across the district, and
- Implement a system that ensures all syllabi follow established College policy
- Comply with monitoring requirements required by the Higher Learning Commission.
Courseleaf Course Proposals
Course Inventory Management System (CIM) Questions? Contact Jill Vaughn, Director of Curriculum and Assessment, jvaughn81@stlcc.edu

Caring for Students & Syllabus Review

Caring for Students Playbook Six Recommendations
This playbook is a collaboration between the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), Achieving the Dream (ATD), and the Every Learner Everywhere Network. It is designed to provide instructors with concrete strategies that can be implemented to support students during this exceptionally challenging time in their lives and beyond as we enter a post-inoculation world.
Adams, S., Bali, M., Eder, Z., Fladd, L., Garrett, K., Garth-McCullough, R., Gibson, A. M., Gunder, A., Iuzzini, J., Knott, J. L., Rafferty, J. & Weber, N. L. (2021 June 8). Caring for Students Playbook. Every Learner Everywhere. https://www. everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/
Syllabus Review Guide, Center for Urban Education, University of Southern California (USC).
A inquiry tool for promoting racial and ethnic equity and equity-minded practice. Complete short, anonymous form to access tool. “To truly support students from minoritized racial groups who traditionally have faced greater obstacles to accessing and completing higher education, states, higher education systems, and institutions need an explicit racial equity focus to inform all efforts related to this essential work.” — Estela Mara Bensimon, Director and Professor of Higher Education

Syllabus Design

Creating Your Syllabus: Your syllabus is about more than simply providing your students with the “facts” of the course – the policies, rules, expectations, evaluation criteria and assignment overviews. It is one of your first spots of interaction with your students and is an important site where you can promote habits of mind and an approach to learning that you feel will be most beneficial to students in your class. The following resources will provide advice and information to help you create a well-organized syllabus.

Syllabus Example that lists Core Abilities
Course: Student Success with Open and Affordable Resources. Core Abilities listed include: Model Integrity; Communicate Effectively; Think Critically; Values Diversity.

Your Syllabus Doesn’t Have to Look Like a Contract
David Gooblar, Columnist at Chronicle Vitae - Pedagogy Unbound

Blooms Taxonomy of Measurable Verbs for Learning Outcomes

Creating a Syllabus, The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, Univ. of IL
Describes the syllabus as a contract, as a personal record, and as a learning tool.
Accessible Syllabus: Accessible classroom resources promote student engagement and agency
This website is dedicated to helping instructors build a syllabus that plans for diverse student abilities and promotes an atmosphere in which students feel comfortable discussing their unique abilities. Countless instructors complain that students don’t read the syllabus. We believe students would use the document more effectively if it were designed more accessibly. Accessibility is necessary for all learning, and disability studies provides a key lens through which to question our classroom practices and resources. To create more inclusive teaching, instructors must plan for diversity in the classroom and adapt to the immediate needs of students.
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Project created by Anne-Marie Womack, Assistant Director of Writing at Tulane University, et. al.

The course syllabus: A learning-centered approach by Judith Grunert O'Brien
Call Number: 378.199 O135c 2008, FV, MC, WW-Stacks
Creating a syllabus is a key step in course design, the moment where you synthesize the disparate components of your course. As much as possible, you should design a "learning-centered syllabus" (O'Brien ) that focuses on the learning that will take place as much, if not more than, the content that will be covered. A learning-centered syllabus addresses not only the work that students will do, but also the processes and resources that will support that work -- and the student learning.

Syllabus Review Guide, Center for Urban Education, University of Southern California (USC).
A inquiry tool for promoting racial and ethnic equity and equity-minded practice. Complete short, anonymous form to access tool. “To truly support students from minoritized racial groups who traditionally have faced greater obstacles to accessing and completing higher education, states, higher education systems, and institutions need an explicit racial equity focus to inform all efforts related to this essential work.” — Estela Mara Bensimon, Director and Professor of Higher Education