Title: Syllabus and Assignment Design | Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
Headings: Syllabus and Assignment Design
Syllabus and Assignment Design
Designing your Syllabus: Backward Design
Designing Your Assignment
Spacing Your Assignments
Crafting Your Assignments
The Open Writing Assignment
Crafting a Good Prompt

Content: To accomplish the aims of experiential learning, it's important to come up with a course question that can bring together the many smaller questions of the course and that can engage students intellectually and experientially. For instance: What is happiness? What are the roots of violence? What is the nature of the self? Technology: friend or foe? These are the kinds of questions that can focus course readings and class discussions. They are also the kinds of questions that students can engage with outside of the context of the writing classroom. Finally, they are the kinds of questions around which professors can build a course that is intellectually coherent.