{"id":204,"date":"2006-04-21T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/21\/whats-on-your-syllabus\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T07:54:11","slug":"whats-on-your-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/21\/whats-on-your-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s On Your Syllabus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I teach introductory classes, I use a somewhat more complicated homework policy than most of my colleagues. As a result, my syllabus tends to run longer than theirs, by at least a page or two. I sometimes worry that this is excessive, but happily, Inside Higher Ed is here to prove me wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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By my second semester, I was getting more specific on paper. My attendance policy seemed clear to me — as did my requirements for rewrites. I had even made up an in-depth course outline, which listed due dates for papers, late due dates for papers which included a 10 percent grade penalty, quiz dates and test dates. I reasoned that any person accepted to college would surely be able to understand my course objectives and see how they could accomplish those goals. I was wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As with most of these sorts of stories, there’s a certain sick fascination to the whole thing, but mostly, I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that. Maybe it’s the difference between science majors and English majors, but I don’t usuaully get buried in questions about my complex policies, despite providing much less information than Ms. Wilson does. In fact, I refuse to put class-by-class outlines on my syllabus, and argue against putting them on common syllabi.<\/p>\n

(Apologies for the Capital One joke, but really, who could pass that up?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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