Course:ASIA592/2026W1/Syllabi and Course Design

General

• Syllabus Design for Dummies (retrieved from the Wayback Machine)
• DIY Syllabus: What Is a Syllabus Really For, Anyway? (Chronicle Vitae, retrieved from the Wayback Machine)
• The 3 Essential Functions of Your Syllabus Chronicle
• Creating Syllabi (Links to past articles, ProfHacker)
• Estimating Student Workload
• Accessible Syllabus
• Planning a Course with Backward Design
• Syllabus-writing as storytelling University Affairs
• Sample Syllabi (what to put in syllabi submitted with a job application)
• Elena Afros and Catherine F. Schryer, "The Genre of Syllabus in Higher Education", Journal of English for Academic Purposes 8/3 (2009)
• Gauthier, Geneviève, Jessica Banner, and Laura Winer. “What Is the Syllabus for? Revealing Tensions through a Scoping Review of Syllabus Uses.” International Journal for Academic Development 31, no. 3 (2026): 479–98.
• Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do (Book, UBC Library)
• Asian Studies links for educators (Education about Asia, AAS)
• Syllabus design boot camp (University Affairs)
• How To Write a Course Proposal for a Job/Postdoc App (TPII)

Learning Objectives/Outcomes

• Starter Syllabus (Teaching Support and Innovation, University of Oregon)
• Learning Objectives (links on UBC Wiki)
• Learning Outcomes (Harvard)
• Sample Humanities Learning Objectives (Carnegie Mellon)
• Writing Intended Learning Outcomes (University of Waterloo)

Samples

• Open Syllabus Project
• Syllabi (downloadable samples) (Chronicle Vitae, retrieved from the Wayback Machine)
• Sample Syllabi American Society for Literature and the Environment
• Just Google (search for keywords + "syllabus")!
• South Asian Media syllabi
• UBC Senate Curriculum Proposal Form Examples

UBC Resources

• Course Design Institute (CTLT, UBC)
• Curriculum Submission Guide (UBC Senate)
• Writing Learning Outcomes (Faculty of Education)
• Learning Outcomes (UBC-O)