English 201 / For Instructors
Sample Syllabi
English 201 instructors design their own courses. There is no model syllabus. For instructors, this provides an opportunity for putting pedagogical theories into practice and developing a course that reflects and explores your own approach to teaching writing. As a result, English 201 students typically find themselves in an innovative and creative learning envirnoment.
New instructors, as well as experienced ones, can use the sample syllabi collected here to help in imagining the myriad ways you can construct your course and the kind of language you might use for course policy statements. These syllabi also offer choices for thinking about evaluation and grading. Be sure to review at least several syllabi to see how different instructors approach this task, from traditional methods to portfolios to achievement-based/criteria grading. Feel free to borrow and adapt whatever you think is interesting! Also be sure to look at the syllabus construction page for some ways to think about developing a brand new course.
Below are syllabi from earlier semesters:
Cydney Alexis, Visual Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and Ethics
Cindy Au, Counterrevolution and Revolt
Mary Fiorenza, Writing Places: Varieties of Nonfiction
David Grant, Writing/Values/Place
Ron Harris, High-Risk Drinking and the UW-Madison Campus: A Problem-Based Writing Workshop
Melanie Hoftyzer, Social Construction of Gender through Media and Language
Corey Mead, Cults, Conspiracies, and Paranoia
Alice Robison, The Jury Project
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Professor Michael Bernard-Donals - Chair
Professor Jane Zuengler - Associate Chair
Professor Jacques Lezra - Director of Graduate
Studies
Professor Sherry Reames - Undergraduate Director
