Open Syllabus is a massive non-profit archive of the main activity of higher education: teaching. It provides top-down views of the curriculum across thousands of schools to support curricular innovation, lifelong learning, and student success.

Instructors: Post and update syllabi in the Canvas Syllabus tool for your course. Contact us for help. Students: To view syllabi, select an academic term, then browse courses by subject.

In addition to this section, we strongly encourage you to visit the syllabus site where you can find help on creating a new syllabus, revising your current syllabus, or look at the syllabus checklist. Syllabus Examples. Birth of Modern Childbirth Syllabus . Introduction to Playwriting Syllabus . Information Systems Syllabus

A syllabus provides important information about what is expected from students taking the course. It details the course requirements, your assignments and their deadlines, participation and attendance expectations, and how your grade is calculated.

University Syllabus. Students are responsible for reading and understanding all university-wide policies and resources pertaining to all courses provided on this webpage. For course-specific policies and resources, consult the course syllabus provided by your course instructor.*

Below are syllabus sections (with instructions and sample statements) consistent with pedagogical best practices that you should include in your syllabus. Please use the list below, the templates above, the Syllabus Best Practices Check List [pdf], and the Quality Standards for Online Courses to ensure that your syllabus meets standards!

Today’s books on college teaching and course design are likely to draw on different metaphors: the syllabus is a map or travelogue, as it both describes the intended destination and explains why one might want to go in the first place (Nilson, 27).