To attempt to include every single items of importance in your syllabus is to insure that the student will not read much of it. To the experienced teacher, probably few of the items listed in this paper are likely to come as a surprise. At the very lease we hope this paper will provide the reader with a useful organization of what is already known. There was surprising agreement about the major areas of information to be included in a syllabus. Major Content Areas of a Syllabus Course Information.
Many instructors give the students their home telephone number.
If you are helped by teaching assistants or other instructors, their names, locations, and phone numbers should also be listed. Text, Readings, Materials. These are becoming increasingly costly. Sometimes instructors make their own books available to students. If this is the case for the given course, that information might be included in the syllabus along with whatever conditions apply to their use.