DATE: January 22, 2015
TO: FYW Faculty
FROM: Johannah Rodgers
SUBJECT: FYW Beginning of Term Memo ________________________________________________________________
Dear Colleagues,
I’m delighted that you will be teaching a FYW course at City Tech in the Spring, 2015 semester. To assist instructors with developing their syllabi and weekly course schedules, as well as to help the FYW Program coordinate and oversee course materials, I am writing now to let you know about a few new resources related to syllabus and course schedule development and about some new procedures for submission of these documents to the department.
A Syllabus Template is now available for ENG1101 and ENG1121 courses. Please feel free to use this template in developing your syllabus. A Weekly Course Schedule Template is included with the Syllabus Template and INCLUDES A DATE FOR THE FINAL EXAM. Instructors are strongly encouraged to use this template in developing their weekly course schedules. If you choose not to use this template, please ENSURE that you consult this template when assigning dates for the final exam in your own course schedule.
Along with the syllabus templates, you will also find in the COURSE TOOLS section, a template for and information about the City Tech eCourse Folder, which is how attendance and grades are recorded for each course.
While we understand that course schedules may need to be revised over the course of the semester, the FYW Program would be most appreciative if instructors could SUBMIT a copy of their draft syllabus to the FYW Program PRIOR to the beginning of the semester. You should feel free to revise and update this over the course of the semester. If possible, please submit your Spring 2015 syllabus via the NEW FYW Syllabus Submission Form on the FYW Open Lab site. Alternately, you can e-mail your syllabus as an attachment to Johannah Rodgers (jrodgers@citytech.cuny.edu).
