• UC Berkeley, from Barbara Gross Davis, “Tools for Teaching” – Creating a Syllabus: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/syllabus.html
  
  
• Drexel University: http://www.drexel.edu/IRT/facilities/fdc/Syllabustemplate.pdf
  
  
• Learning-Centered Syllabus Format (UMass Lowell) - http://www.uml.edu/centers/FTC/lcsyll.html
  
  
• CSU Dominguez Hills Syllabus Construction Template: http://ctl.csudh.edu/RESOURCES/SyllabusConstructionTemplate.pdf

Tutorials/Handbooks

• University of Minnesota - http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/syllabus/
  • Sections on course description, expectations, texts, technology, grading, resources, calendar
  • Includes plagiarism policies, how to cite sources, etc.
    
    
• Brown University - http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Sheridan_Center
  • Detailed analysis of course structure, link with effective teaching
  • See especially the “Online Syllabus Workshop” and the Master Syllabus form
    
    
• University of North Florida, A Syllabus Guidebook (2000): both an analysis and listed and explained components of a syllabus: http://www.unf.edu/dept/cirt/teaching/adjunct/syllabus.pdf

Worksheets

• Arizona State University: Course Planning, Articles and Tip Sheets http://clte.asu.edu/teachingresources/teaching/planningandpolicies/courseplanning.htm
  
  
• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Syllabus Construction - http://www.utc.edu/Administration/WalkerTeachingResourceCenter/FacultyDevelopment/Syllabus/
  
  
• Howard B. Altman, William E. Cashin, “Writing a Syllabus” - http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/writesyl.htm
  
  
• Fairfield University: Constructing a Syllabus - http://www.fairfield.edu/x3717.html - Guidelines for a discussion about syllabi

Papers/Essays

• Altman, Howard B. “Writing a Syllabus” http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/writesyl.htm
  • Discussion of principal parts
  • Bibliography and “Major Content Areas”
  • Further reading and references
    
    
• MSU Teaching Thought #13: Creating the “Complete” Syllabus –http://www.tap.msu.edu/PDF/thoughts/tt13.pdf
  
  
• Lang, James.  “The Promising Syllabus,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02c00201.htm

Collection of Sample Syllabi for various courses: