Directions: Cut and paste into a word document and add information appropriate to your course and program.

Course Syllabus

Course Title:	(Place title here)

Course Number:	(Place CRN here)

Course Date:	(Place term and dates here)

Course Location:	(Place room{s} here)

Instructor:	(Place instructor name, office location, office hours, phone and email address, web address of the course online resources here)

Course Description:	(Place catalog description here – like the sample below.)

WR 121 introduces students to college writing: how to use experiences, observation, and critical reading to discover and support ideas. Students learn to organize an essay around a thesis, to use suitable patterns of development, to support ideas clearly, to revise to suit purpose and audience, and to edit for college-level style. Timed writing in class is a major component.

Pre-requisite/program:	(If necessary place any prerequisites or co-requisites, including test scores here. Or indicate how this course fits into a program or degree)

Learning Outcomes:

Course Objectives:	(Place learning objectives here. These 4-10 outcomes describe what major things students are to know and do {knowledge and skills and attitudes} by the end of the term. These outcomes should be the same for all courses of the same number.)

1. Be able to produce stand-alone paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting details.

2. Be able to maintain focus and coherence for stand-alone paragraphs of at least 200 words.

3. Be able to distinguish between general support and specific evidence and to apply the distinction to one’s writing.

4. Be able to produce paragraphs containing a variety of sentence lengths and structures, including some complex sentences.

5. Be able to edit one’s own writing to avoid most major sentence errors.

6. Be able to edit one’s own writing to avoid capitalization, spelling and confused word errors.

7. Be able to edit one’s own writing for generally accurate use of commas, semi-colons, apostrophes, and pronouns.

8. Understand the principles of the writing process in its basic form: generating ideas, organizing ideas, drafting, revising and editing.

Instructional Methods

Methods:	(Place statement about how course is taught.)

Example: This course is taught using a variety of instructional including lecture, class discussions, small group work, project creation, and electronic discussion (email and website chat room).

Textbook & Materials

Textbook Title:	(Place here)

Publisher:	(Place here)

Materials	(Place here) Distinguish between required readings and recommended/supporting materials.

Topics and Assignments

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Week 1	(Place major topics/themes and readings/assignments that are due here)

Week 2	(Place here)

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Assessment

Exams/Quizzes	(Include major forms of assessments and how they contribute to final grade; quizzes, tests, exams, papers, projects, performances/products, in-class exercise such as group work, discussion, simulations or labs)

Final	(Place here)

In-class work	(Place here)

Late Work	(Place here)

Missed Exams	(Place here)

Absences	(Place here)

Extra Credit	(Place here)

Cheating/Plagiarism	(Place here)

Grading standard	(Sample)

There will be 10 or so quizzes throughout the course, made up from objective questions (multiple-choice or identification) and fill-in blank questions. I drop your 2 lowest quiz scores when I compute your quiz average. With this safety margin, there are no make up quizzes if you are absent. A missed quiz is 0%. Quizzes are 50% of your course grade. One or two of your quiz scores will come from participation.

Short essay papers make up 25% of your grade. The papers are always one page and are always typed single-spaced. I will provide you with models of how they should be designed and how to incorporate details. You should do better in this part of the course if you have completed Writing 121. The final exam will be three papers chosen from a list of about ten topics provided one week before the finals week. Each of these papers are 1-2 pages single-spaced, which means they can be a little longer than the short essays.

Final Exam	Describe your university final exam policies. How it is conducted and assigned grade.

Policies	If you have any policies you can describe it here. Again, these have to be clear with no ambiguities procedures established by your own institution

Sample Syllabus

Anatoly Tmanov

2007-02-20

Pennsylvania State University