Hi aska,
I’m an arts and science student and I would like to get an idea of the required course work for my winter courses. In the past I have been able to google courses and somehow stumble across the course website to view the syllabus, but the switch to portal is making that less effective this year. Is there a collection of old course syllabuses somewhere?
I just heard that if you are applying to Grad school you may need a copy of the syllabus from every course you have ever taken. This makes me think it would be beneficially to most students if ASSU or UTSC was able to get and hold onto a copy of most syllabuses. Is something like this already in effect? If not, is there any rule against this and who should I be bugging to make it happen?
Thanks.
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If there is a collection of course syllabi available somewhere, I haven?t stumbled across it, and you should know that aska spends a lot of time googling (it?s an occupational hazard… you get addicted).
You could still try googling the course codes and adding ?Toronto? to your search or something. Some professors still prefer using websites (as upposed to portal), and you can find the old syllabi on their websites. For instance, I was looking up the syllabus for MAT257 the other day and I typed in “MAT257 Toronto” and there it was. I searched “CHM328 Toronto” and also scored a hit (there are even some past problem sets there… hint hint nudge nudge for anyone taking the course).
Otherwise, you might try searching for the department?s website for a list of syllabi. I?ve located several old syllabi this way– for instance, here?s one for Sexual Diversity Studies.
As for whether there is a rule against against? a site that compiles course syllabi, probably not. Perhaps you could bug ASSU ? I mean, they do the anti-calendar anyway.
I?m like 99% sure that you don?t need to show graduate schools copies of your course syllabi. Otherwise, no one would get into grad school because as far as I know, people don’t generally keep their course syllabi… I mean, grad schools might ask you to give descriptions of courses ? but syllabi? Come on.
If I?m wrong and keeping copies of course syllabi is indeed a secret requirement of grad school that I have never heard or read of before, you can laugh at me later when I’m applying and I l00k lyk dis: I threw out my first-year physics syllabus and it?s probably half-way around the country by now, with the used condoms and what not.
