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050 1 4 _aLB 2361
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082 0 0 _a378.1/99
100 1 _aGermano, William P.,
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245 1 0 _aSyllabus :
_bthe remarkable, unremarkable document that changes everything /
_cWilliam Germano & Kit Nicholls.
264 1 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c2020.
300 _axxiii, 204 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"The syllabus is one of the central documents of academic life, the one thing every teacher needs to write and every student needs to read. Most syllabi begin with a course description, a statement of what the course is about. But how do we get there? How will our students get there? And where is there? This book by William Germano and Kit Nicholls is a field guide to, and collegial chat concerning, this fundamental but often overlooked document. It describes how syllabi work and don't work, offers advice and encouragement to the professor trying to finish yet another syllabus, and reimagines our students' encounters with our syllabi by reconsidering our own relationship to them. Sampling syllabi from a range of disciplines across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Syllabus asks such questions as: what is a reading list, and what is it for? how do we build human time into the semester's clocktime? and can a syllabus be a living thing? Germano and Nicholls argue that at its heart, a syllabus is not really about what students have to know, or what the instructor will do, but what the students will do. A syllabus designed around doing is not only a faster and more effective way to move students toward knowledge, they contend, but also, importantly, an invitation into a community of practice-one that includes the students, the instructor, and countless others who will enter the classrom through readings, images, designs, and theories. Reimagining the syllabus as a sort of constitution-a founding document that creates a community out of a group of disparate individuals-they show that a syllabus is, above all, a privilege and a responsibility, as one of the few forms of writing that can quite directly call others to act"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_xCurricula.
650 4 _aEducación superior
_xCurrículo
_929955
650 0 _aCurriculum planning.
650 4 _aPlanificación curricular
_910446
650 0 _aCollege teaching.
650 4 _aEnseñanza universitaria
_92520
700 1 _aNicholls, Kit,
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