Many of the decisions affecting the success of a course take place well before the first day of class. Careful planning at the syllabus design stage not only makes teaching easier and more enjoyable, ...

RIP the wacky Globes. If you thought last year’s Golden Globes nominations were esoteric, well the 2026 crop is practically a ...

Each semester faculty members will provide students in each of their classes with a syllabus in the format of and containing the minimum of information as outlined below. Faculty can expand the ...

The course syllabus serves as a contract between the student and professor regarding course expectations and policies. The course syllabus should clearly communicate what the instructor expects of ...

D inkar Jain was hired at the University of California at Los Angeles’s Anderson School of Management in 2023 to teach “Management in the Age of AI” — a course he had developed to give current and ...

Designing a successful academic course is a multi-step process requiring both subject expertise and pedagogical knowledge. To ensure the best possible alignment between course subject matter and ...

An Indiana University humanities course teaches students about the health consequences of ‘mass incarceration,’ while having ...

Both minimalist and maximalist approaches to syllabus design have their proponents: concise syllabi are easier to navigate, while detailed ones offer a more precise picture of the course structure.

Our campus teaching center recently invited a brave group of student tutors to share their views on effective teaching with our faculty. The four tutors reported what they had heard from students ...

Faculty have a new platform for sharing information about the courses they teach. Course Insights is a new, easy-to-use syllabus archiving system where students and advisors can conveniently view ...

If Simple Syllabus is not visible in your left-hand course navigation, you will need to enable it via the course settings. Follow the instructions below to enable and make visible Simple Syllabus in ...

Key Takeaways ・CUNY's 'Global Antifa' course requires students to conduct research projects that support global anti-fascist ...