Keep in mind that your syllabus is a contract between you and your students. It is also your first interaction with students and an opportunity to build excitement about the class. Given that WRIT 105 and WRIT 106 are required courses, securing student buy-in is especially critical. Use this opportunity to be welcoming and enthusiastic about working with students, as well as clear about your expectations. All instructors should include the program policies in their own syllabus (in addition to any policies that you would like to add).
For those teaching WRIT 105, feel free to adapt the Collaborative Syllabus WRIT 105_FA23, which incorporates the Writing Guide, for your own needs. [Highlighted terms in the schedule refer to handouts that are available in a faculty Google folder; please do not share this folder with students]. Returning faculty are welcome to use the collaborative syllabus in part or in its entirety.
For WRIT 106, there are four versions of a collaborative syllabus available for any interested faculty. Note that only new faculty for the upcoming semester are required to use these syllabi; however, they are a resource for all faculty to help demonstrate a sense of pacing and the variety of ways that faculty can approach WRIT 106. Any of the collaborative syllabi can be amended/adapted.
WRIT 106: Writing and Research [food ethnographic approach syllabus+ schedule adapted from Liz Martin’s syllabus]
WRIT 106: Sound, Place, and Rhetoric [adapted from Henry Margenau’s syllabus]
WRIT 106: Nature, Outsiders, Superheroes [adapted from Leslie Doyle’s syllabus]
WRIT 106: Arguing About Literature
For detailed information on all textbook options, please see Text Selection Guidelines.