Designing a Course and Preparing a Syllabus

Presented by UAA Faculty:

Jackie Cason, Ph.D. and Genie Babb, Ph.D.
for the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence
New Faculty Orientation Fall 2007
PowerPoint Presentation and Handouts
Additional Resources

PowerPoint Presentation and Handouts

Designing a Course and
Preparing a Syllabus

Worksheets:
Worksheet 1: Enduring Understandings & Essential Questions
Worksheet 2: Unit Questions and Statements
Worksheet 3: An Exercise in Thinking Graphically

Graphic Syllabi Examples:
Example 1: Social Stratification
Example 2: Conservation Biology
Example 3: Public Science Writing

Syllabus Checklist:

College of Arts and Sciences Template Outline

7 Principles of Design

Additional Resources

The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map :
Communicating Your Course
Linda B. Nilson
ISBN: 978-0-470-18085-3 Hardcover 224 pages
Available October 2007
More Information available at Jossey-bass.com

Understanding by Design / Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, 2005.
UAA/APU Consortium General Collection LB2806.15.W54 Book
UAA Kodiak General Collection LB2806.15.W54 Book
UAA Mat-Su General Collection LB2806.15.W54 Book