Collecting the syllabi

Using the university’s LEO Online web registration interface, I generated lists of all graduate level courses offered by the English department over the last three years (Fall 2005 – Summer 2006, Fall 2006 – Summer 2007, and Fall 2007 – Spring 2008) and requested the resulting course syllabi from the English Department.  In the example presented here, the number of syllabi (166) differs from the total number of courses listed (188) because some 700/800 split-level courses utilized one syllabus for both offerings.

For a variety of reasons (syllabi not turned in to the department, lack of centralized storage of submitted syllabi, and a lack of time prior to the end of the semester), I was unable to collect any syllabi for the year prior to the launch of the English doctoral program. However, I obtained roughly two-thirds of the courses offered over the most recent two-year period. I will continue to collect course syllabi from the English department and directly from instructors with a goal of obtaining at least two-thirds (66%) of course documents from each semester and the entire three-year period as a whole.

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