This training will explain how to write an accurate, easy-to-understand syllabus that can serve as a guide for a course. Participants also will learn how to personalize a syllabus template.

A common complaint from professors concerns students’ endless questions about topics that are covered on the syllabus. I have been teaching for over a decade and recall only one such incident. So ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. You can find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. Do you ever feel like you want to ...

Like many faculty members, I approach my syllabus before a new semester begins with some trepidation: Do I need to add anything new? Usually the reasons for inserting additional language are quite ...

Joseph A. Howley knew getting students to read his syllabus, even in a class that emphasized close reading, would be a struggle. So in 2015, Mr. Howley, an assistant professor of classics at Columbia ...