Thriving in Academe

Exemplary Syllabi Available on the Internet

• In Second Nature, an environmental education organization, features green syllabi online. Bruce Clemens' (James Madison University) "Sustainability," is both comprehensive and specific at www.secondnature.org/programs/star.
• In the humanities Charles Keyes' (Duquesne University) "Introductory Philosophy," taught online, is inductive in form and content, allowing students to reach their own conclusions about tough questions www.duq.edu/~keyes/bpg/syllabus.html. Also see the syllabus for "The U.S. and the World," by John Grant (Michigan State University) at www.msu.edu/course/iah/201/grant/IAHfalsyll.htm.
  Ernest Bolt (University of Richmond) combines detailed assignments, user-friendly style, and evocative questions introducing each topic for "US Diplomatic History". www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/syll327.html.
• When the term "contract" is applied to a syllabus, it connotes the weightiness pervading Mary Ann Lubno's (Northern Arizona State University) course, "Nursing Research" http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~nu390b-c/nur390/syllabus.html.
  Matching her densely-packed 18-pager is the syllabus for "Survey of Ancient and Medieval Art," at University of Wisconsin-Madison, www.wisc.edu/arth/ah201/syllabus.html
• Students benefit by remembering the links binding our syllabi, and Linda Nilson (Clemson University) offers us a graphic syllabus, resembling a flow chart. It won the 2001 "Bright Idea Award" from The POD Network and appeals to visual learners.

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