Teaching Seminar Spring 2008

Syllabus Assignment

This is due no later than Monday, May 5th at 5:00 p. m.

The Syllabus Part:

Write a syllabus for either the introductory psychology course or the human sexuality course (whichever you would be most interested in teaching). Include the following components:

• Name of Course
• Your name, office, office hours, how to reach you
• The text
• Pre-requisites
• General Purpose of course / course objectives
• Schedules for topics, including exams
• The basis for assigning grades
• Other points / policies that you want to mention

This syllabus should be formatted so that it would be ready to distribute in a class. Pretend it is for Fall 2005, so you can set the exam dates and schedule.

The Rationale:

This is the long part that will require more thought on your part. Discuss these points on separate sheets from the syllabus.

Justify your syllabus choices:

• How is this course area traditionally defined? What are its boundaries? How does this translate into your course content?
• What are two points / perspectives from your teaching philosophy that you incorporated into the design of your course?
• Why is this material (the text you chose, the chapters in the text you decided to cover, other reading materials, etc.) being included in the class?
• Why are you having the type and number of tests / papers / other requirements that you are?
• Why have you chosen to determine course grades the way you did?

Please turn this in typed, and double-spaced.