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Syllabus – Credit Course Overview Policy
Each instructor will distribute a credit course overview to students and to the appropriate administrator's office during the first week of the course. Instructors may modify overviews with adequate notice to students.
Required Content Areas:
- College name and address
- Instructor name
- Instructor office location, availability, and phone extension
- Course title, number, CRN number, credits, meeting time and place
- Term and year
- Course description
- Course prerequisites, if any
- Instructional materials (e.g., textbooks, supplies, equipment)
- Major assignments (exams, essays, projects)
- Tentative calendar, if appropriate to the course
- Grading criteria
- Attendance and make-up policies, if any
- Instructional ADA statement; Example, "If you require specific instructional accommodations, please notify me early in the course."
- Flexibility Statement: e.g., "Assignment/exam calendars may be changed in response to institutional, weather, class problems."
Optional Content Areas:
- Instructional approach/theory
- Campus resources available
- Equal opportunity statement
- Statement specific to course content
- Cheating/plagiarism statement
Effective: June 1, 1996