Syllabus Zone!

selected superb syllabi & syllabus-surrounding sites &c.

curated by brendan (@schlage.town)

Syllabus Standouts

specific syllabi that are awesome in specific ways

see also: Full syllabus PDF; Nathan's adapted version (cool!)

Syllabus Standouts

specific syllabi that are awesome in specific ways

Computer Utopias

A studio workgroup for urgent concerns in computers & representation. 🌎📲

https://chrisnovello.com/teaching/risd/computer-utopias/

Syllabus

Collected readings and resources in the critical study of logistics.

https://supplystudies.com/syllabus/

How to Write About Place

a public syllabus

https://makinganeighborhood.substack.com/p/how-to-write-about-place

The POWER OF US Course: A syllabus with articles and activities for teaching about identity

Issue 82: Sharing our educational materials for teaching about the Power of Shared Identity and an opportunity to join our new book club!

https://www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-power-of-us-course-a-syllabus

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus - Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s.

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

Press Play

Making and distributing content in the present future we are living through.

https://medium.com/press-play/press-play-4b26bed77b7d

111

English 111 / Comp Lit 115 Experimental Writing Seminar: Constraints & Collaborations Charles Bernstein

https://www.writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/syllabi/111.html

Paper Computers

A Fall 2018 graduate seminar in English and CSPT at UVic

https://jentery.github.io/508v4/

Teach Yourself Computer Science

All the resources you need to give yourself a world class computer science education

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

Teaching The Long Now

Photo: The Long Now Foundation I’ve been involved with The Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to fostering long-t…

https://futuryst.blogspot.com/2019/10/teaching-long-now.html

experiences/experiments

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | bonus | 10 | 11 | proposals | portfolio e/e one: drop everything & read Introducing Attention While doing the reading this week, keep track of the things that…

https://attentioncapstone.tumblr.com/experiencesexperiments

A syllabus for the new global politics

Clashing information orders and what they mean

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/a-syllabus-for-the-new-global-politics

How to Pay Attention

The main challenge in running a seminar on the anthropology of attention is that such a thing doesn’t exist.* While anthropologists often think quite deeply about attention, worrying about our own …

https://somatosphere.com/2018/how-to-pay-attention.html/

see also: Full syllabus PDF; Nathan's adapted version (cool!)

Teaching Portals

homepages of great teachers (often a kind of syllabus archive, a repository of past course materials)

Teaching Portals

homepages of great teachers (often a kind of syllabus archive, a repository of past course materials)

Shannon Mattern

Classes

Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

https://wordsinspace.net/classes/

Nick Sousanis

Education – Home

Interested in knowing more about comics, putting them to use in your classroom, and trying your hand at making them? I set up this site initially for the class on comics for educators that I taught at Teachers College and have since been growing to serve as a database of comics-education resources. Explore the right sidebar menu for resources and feel free to drop me a line with suggestions. Thanks – Nick

https://spinweaveandcut.com/education-home/

Laurel Schwulst

Very Interactive

a living resource generated through the ongoing teaching practice of Laurel Schwulst

https://veryinteractive.net/

Shannon Ebner

index.html

PHOTOGRAPHY

http://imagineallthepeople.info/

Allison Parrish

Home page of poet and programmer Allison Parrish

https://www.decontextualize.com/

Mindy Seu

This is the teaching portal of Mindy Seu, a designer, educator, and researcher based in New York City.

https://www.designforthe.net/

Personal Syllabi

syllabi people have created for themselves & shared with others

Personal Syllabi

syllabi people have created for themselves & shared with others

Victoria's personal curriculum + later reflections

vrk’s learning stuff: fall 2023 curriculum

alrighty so I did a retro with myself after Mini Printer Pal! I decided I want to spend the next phase of my time off honing my drawing & design skills.

https://vrk.mmm.page/fall2023curriculum

fall2023curriculum-revisited

Fall 2023 self-study results

https://vrk.mmm.page/fall2023curriculum-revisited

Arielle's sabbatical syllabus

fall 23 syllabussy | arielle lok

Ah. Here we are! I’ve been struggling with the notion of having a sabbatical at the ripe age of 21. It is difficult to deem myself ‘worthy’ - most anecdotes of sabbaticals occur after a decade of working in longstanding careers.

https://ariellelok.com/sidepages/2023syllabus/fall2023syllabus.html

Michelle's self-directed parental leave residency

Activist in residency (in motherhood)

This is a self-directed residency taking place during my parental leave. Over the next few months, between nap times and playing with my infant son, I’d like to investigate: I will conduct this…

https://medium.com/@thornet/readme-d65dcc74a4d9

Susan Rigetti's learning guides for math and physics

Physics — Susan Rigetti

So You Want to Learn Physics…SECOND EDITION

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

Math — Susan Rigetti

March 6th, 2022

https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

Other Resources

books, projects, and syllabus-adjacent readings

Other Resources

books, projects, and syllabus-adjacent readings

Books

Jesse Ball: Notes on My Dunce Cap

A text for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms and for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration. Drawn from Ball’s experiences teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Notes on my Dunce Cap includes advisory material regarding the role of the t

https://store.pioneerworks.org/products/notes-on-my-dunce-cap

Syllabus – Drawn & Quarterly

Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry’s pioneering, life-changing workshop

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/syllabus/

Syllabus

How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691192208/syllabus

Projects

The Syllabus

The good content is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed

https://www.the-syllabus.com/

Open Syllabus

Map the college curriculum across 20.9 million syllabi

https://www.opensyllabus.org/

Syllabus

Visit the post for more.

https://syllabusproject.org/

examples from Syllabus Project:

Taking an Internet Walk

transSUBs

On Collecting

Readings

BOMB Magazine | On the Creation of Syllabi

The finger pointing to the hills.

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2017/08/16/on-the-creation-of-syllabi/

The Utopian Syllabus | Tim Holt

School can feel disorienting and esoteric. What say we embrace the fiction of the classroom?

https://timholtmusic.com/folio/2019/6/11/utopian-syllabus