Project: Collaborative Intro to T&T Syllabus
In this project, you will work together to write a syllabus for Intro to T&T. This assignment has two purposes. First, it will help you to learn version control as a technology as you practice fetching from the source, making local additions, deletions, and changes, committing, and making pull requests to have your changes incorporated. Second, the assignment will help you start to synthesize what you have done in the core courses toward your core exam. You are gaining a greater sense of what T&T is and are now positioned to take a stance on what the introduction to the degree should look like.
In the History in T&T repository, you have been provided with a syllabus structure. Some of it is blank. Some of it is pre-populated. Some of what's there is good. Some of what's there is intentionally bad. Your final syllabus needs three things: policies, readings, and assignments.
- Policies: The categories of policy that are already there are the essential ones. You'll need to figure out which of them are in compliance with UCF policies and which aren't, as well as which policies are not covered by a university rule and can be changed however you like.
- Readings: You'll need to select which books from the Core List you think Intro to T&T students should read, and potentially which sections within those books. Then you'll need to map them on to the weeks of the schedule.
- Assignments: You'll need to decide on what assignments will best help students learn. One big paper at the end? Little assignments very frequently? A few that are medium sized?
Your process of putting together the syllabus must be collaborative and include input from all participants. However, how you divide up the work is up to you: Some people might choose readings and others assignments, or you might break up the weeks, or some people might draft and others edit. You will also need to decide among yourselves who should be the admin(s) with the ability to merge pull requests and email TandT@ucf.edu with a request to add them.