Project Syllabus Description

Project Syllabus is a peer-reviewed repository of syllabi that meet evidence-based best practices for syllabus design. The goal of Project Syllabus is to make these syllabi accessible to all Psychology instructors to support student learning and engagement. Ideally, Project Syllabus will be helpful to instructors at every stage of their career: from the first course prep to revisions and revitalizations of existing content. 

The syllabi posted here have been reviewed by faculty volunteers serving on the Project Syllabus team. We make no claim that any of these syllabi are perfect--syllabus design and construction is an evolving science! Project Syllabus reviewers use a rubric to evaluate each submission. As a compilation of model syllabi, Project Syllabus utilizes a publication process similar to that of an academic  journal. Upon receipt of a syllabus Editor sends the syllabus out to two reviewers. Using the empirically based rubric (provided below), each reviewer scores the rubric and sends the completed rubric, along with any feedback, to the Editor, who then sends the anonymously completed rubrics and feedback to the submitter. The most frequent outcome is to request that the submitter "revise and resubmit" based on the reviewers' completed rubrics and related feedback.

You may reproduce multiple copies of these syllabi for your own personal use, including use in your classes and/or sharing with individual colleagues as long as the author is given due credit as one would with any intellectual property. No other permission is implied or granted to print, copy, reproduce, or distribute additional copies of this material. Anyone who wishes to produce copies for purposes other than those specified above must obtain the permission of the authors.

For useful tips on writing a syllabus, please view the Guidelines for Preparing Exemplary Syllabi.

Within each topic area, syllabi are ordered with the most recent addition first.

Call for Submissions of Exemplary Syllabi for the Pedagogical Use of Technology

The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology invites submissions of syllabi of psychology courses that meet best practices for syllabus design. Syllabi will be evaluated using the following categories:

1. Teaching methods and student engagement
2. Learner support and resources
3. Assessment and evaluation of student learning
4. Course design goals and learning objectives
5. Syllabus organization and design

As of March 2017, all syllabi will be reviewed using the revised rubric (PDF). Please note that syllabi must now be submitted as Word documents. This rubric was developed by a committee of project syllabus reviewers, based on the Rubric for Online Instruction developed by Chico State University (http://www.csuchico.edu/eoi/) as well as a variety of other sources (view list of references here).

When submitting a syllabus for posting in Project Syllabus, remember that all resources must be the original work of an author, must not contain any libelous or unlawful statements, and must not infringe on the rights of others. In addition, resources that might meet "fair use" guidelines in a single class cannot necessarily be posted on our website because of copyright restrictions on reposting without explicit permission from the copyright holder. This includes using material from textbook instructors' manuals, cartoons or other images seen on the Internet or in magazines, sections of the APA Publication Manual, etc.

How to Submit: Submit your syllabi for review by the Project Syllabus Team and add a request for a review specifically for technology content by sending the syllabus as a Word Document to Eleni Pinnow, Editor, Project Syllabus. Prior to submitting, please evaluate your syllabus based on the Project Syllabus rubric. 

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To view an archive of syllabi prior to 2017, visit here.

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