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Teaching and Learning: Course Design and Syllabi

Guide for faculty to develop their practice.

Course Design

Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning by L. Dee Fink

Teaching the Whole Student: engaged learning with heart, mind and spirit by David Schoem et al.
Call Number: LC995 .T427 2017
ISBN: 9781620363034
Publication Date: 2017

Course Design Tutorial
Step-by-step tutorial on designing a course developed by Barbara J. Tewksbury (Hamilton College) and R. Heather MacDonald (College of William and Mary). Many of the examples are drawn from the geosciences, but the principles are relevant to all disciplines.
Designing Your Course
From Cornell University's Center for Teaching Innovation. Includes information on flipping the classroom, universal design, writing a syllabus, using TAs, and re-designing a course.

Idea-Based Learning: a course design process to promote conceptual understanding by Edmund J. Hansen
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781579226152
Publication Date: 2012
Creating Significant Learning Experiences: an Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses by L. Dee Fink
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 1299804705
Publication Date: 2013
Perspectives on Art Education: conversations across cultures by Ruth Mateus-Berr and Michaela Götsch
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9783110444100
Publication Date: 2015

Chronicle of Higher Ed's How to Create a Syllabus

Chronicle of Higher Education. September 12,2018.

Taxonomy of Significant Learning

From Self-directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning.

Syllabi

An Examination of the Integrity of the Syllabus by Darlene Habanek
College Teaching, no. 2, 2005, p. 62.
The Purposes of a Syllabus by Jay Parkes and Mary B. Harris
College Teaching, no. 2, 2002, p. 55.
Mailman Syllabus Toolkit
from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health