Syllabus Checklist
- Course number, title, meeting time and location
- Names and contact information for all course faculty and teaching assistants
- Faculty and TA office hours, including times, locations and, where applicable, VTC link information
- List of required texts and learning resources and how/where students may obtain them
- Course description (including pre-requisites when deemed significant, especially for electives)
- Desired course learning outcomes and links to the School’s curricular outcomes or science foundations (located on the School’s Web site, under Faculty Resources)
- A brief description of teaching and learning methods (how is the course conducted?)
- Assessment and grading policies, including
- Point allocation for graded assignments, exams and class participation/conduct
- Numerical grading scale (compatible with the School’s academic progression guidelines)
- Policies and consequences for late assignments or missed exams
- Course policy for remediation, re-testing, and/or resolving IN grades.
Note: By University policy, IN grades must be resolved before the student may progress to any course for which this course is a prerequisite; all others should be resolved by the end of the eighth week of the following semester - List and full description of course assignments or an overview of the assignments with reference to the location of the full description (e.g., Blackboard)
- Expectations for classroom decorum and academic integrity (honor code), including expectations for attendance and consequences for inappropriate behaviors (if consequences relate to grading)
- Course policy for release of class recordings
- Course schedule - date, topic, instructor, assignments, exam dates, learning objectives and, where relevant, review sessions
