Genesee Community College

To address institutional requirements for Syllabi, Faculty MUST make sure to consult Procedure 220. Every syllabus must contain:

Items that MUST be included in a Course Syllabus	Explanation of items that MUST be included in Course Syllabus
Course number and title	The course number and title can be found in the course outlines, via the links to the right. The section number depends upon your location and the time of day at which you are teaching. DL sections have different numbers as well. Consult with your mentor/colleague.
Course term and year
Instructor contact information	Make sure to provide your office phone number and any other contact information you wish to share (college e-mail address, for example).
Approved catalog description as found on College website	See the links, at right, to each course outline. Copy and paste the catalog description into your syllabus.
Section-specific course description	Again, these can be found via the links at right.
Course goals, including student learning outcomes stated in specific and observable terms	See the SLOs (Student Learning Objectives) in the course outlines, via the links at right. Copy and paste the appropriate ones into your syllabus.
Required materials, including textbook, media, software, hardware, and equipment	See the list of books used by colleagues over the past number of semesters. For purposes of maintaining conceptual matter integrity in courses taught by adjunct faculty, especially when such faculty have been hired just prior to the beginning of a course, books will have been pre-ordered at the bookstore. Adjunct faculty should consult mentors about this.
Course requirements	Consult the course outlines, linked at right. Copy and paste appropriate items into your syllabus.
Criteria for grading (including all factors that could affect a student's grade)	Make sure to include attendance policy and how it affects grades in your class. If you give percentage weighting to certain kinds of assignments, make that clear.
Course policies (i.e., attendance, plagiarism, conduct, etc.)	A universal plagiarism policy statement has been written and adopted by the College. Copy and paste this statement into your syllabus: Plagiarism is the dual act of presenting and claiming the words, ideas, data, or creations of others as one’s own. Plagiarism may be intentional—as in a false claim of authorship—or unintentional—as in a failure to document information sources using MLA, APA, CBE or other style sheets adopted by teachers in the College. Presenting ideas in the exact or nearly exact wording as found in primary or secondary sources constitutes plagiarism, as does patching together close paraphrases. The College faculty members consider plagiarism as cheating.
Course schedule and/or calendar	This is the tentative list of assignments and deadlines, with any brief explanatory matter you may wish to provide.

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