{"id":63,"date":"2009-03-06T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=63"},"modified":"2020-02-11T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:36:35","slug":"constructing-the-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2009\/03\/06\/constructing-the-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"constructing the syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by dno1967 on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31703752@N04\/3251179845\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3452\/3251179845_1bb9bf50e2_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Still not bright enough\" \/><\/a>For many instructors, putting together a syllabus is the first (and often daunting) step toward a new teaching experience. A few years ago, at the American Sociological Association&#8217;s annual meetings, a panel on &#8216;Teaching Sociology for Beginners&#8217; dealt with syllabus construction, among a number of other topics aimed to provide more resources for first-time instructors of introductory-level courses. The sociology department at the <a href=\"http:\/\/wings.buffalo.edu\/soc-sci\/sociology\/.SGSA\/teachasa.html\">University of Buffalo<\/a> has made some of these materials available electronically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the links below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcc.hawaii.edu\/intranet\/committees\/FacDevCom\/guidebk\/teachtip\/develsyl.htm\">Essential Elements of a Syllabus: University of North Carolina &#8211; Chapel Hill Office of Educational Development<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/Administration\/Sheridan_Center\/docs\/syllabus.pdf\">Online Syllabus Workshop: Brown University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celt.iastate.edu\/teaching\/syllabi.html\">Learning-Centered Syllabi Workshop: Lee Haugen, Iowa State University Center for Teaching Excellence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ets.tlt.psu.edu\/learningdesign\/syllabus\">Preparing a Syllabus: from The Penn State Teacher II: Learning to Teach; Teaching to Learn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many instructors, putting together a syllabus is the first (and often daunting) step toward a new teaching experience. A few years ago, at the American Sociological Association&#8217;s annual meetings, a panel on &#8216;Teaching Sociology for Beginners&#8217; dealt with syllabus construction, among a number of other topics aimed to provide more resources for first-time instructors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127413],"tags":[837],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabi-teaching-resources","tag-materials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}