Any syllabus is fated to yield to the messy circumstances of its course, with results that cannot be predicted. This is reason enough to be against syllabi; their presentation of a course as a fully reasoned, systematically organized thing is spurious. A course that is only its syllabus, day after day, is a course where spontaneity, improvisation, and risk have been banished. The loss is too great. --Terry Caesar --Against Syllabi (Inside Higher Ed)I'm sick of syllabi... for now. I've spent all last week and much of this week tweaking them. A student e-mailed me to point out that I scheduled an exam in the middle of a break. Oops.
It turns out our Thursday evening courses only meet thirteen times this year... The last time I taught the course, I would have sworn it was fifteen.
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