Syllabus and Grading Materials
Required Language and Course Policies
Grading Rubric, Philosophy, and Practices
- Grading Philosophy
- UWS Grading Rubric
- Grading Tips
- Commenting on Student Writing
- Sample Final Draft Comments
UWS Schedule Templates
Fall 2022
- Monday-Wednesday (DOCX) (gdoc)
- Monday-Wednesday-Thursday (DOCX) (gdoc)
- Tuesday-Thursday (DOCX) (gdoc)
- Tuesday-Friday (DOCX) (gdoc)
- All Days (DOCX) (gdoc)
Sample UWS Syllabi
- The Age of Distraction | Patrick Kindig | Fall 2021
- Animals in a Human World | Catherine Scott | Spring 2021
- "Bad English" | Nai Kim | Spring 2021
- "Bad English" | Amanda Presswood | Fall 2021
- Biology of Morality | Elissa Jacobs | Fall 2019
- Black Voices | Ryan Hitchcock | Spring 2021
- Bodies of Evidence | Katrin Fischer | Spring 2021
- The Cosmos | Yi He | Spring 2021
- Darwinian Dating | Elissa Jacobs | Fall 2019
- Domestic Labor: Class, Race, and Gender | Courtney Pina Miller | Spring 2021
- Environmental Literature: Ecocriticism and Writing | Marsha Nourse | Spring 2020
- Epidemics in America | Alexis Kardatzke | Fall 2019
- Guilty Pleasures and Pop Culture | Bofang Li | Spring 2021
- The I of the Eye: Spying and Surveillance in the Arts | Pyunghwa Lee | Spring 2018
- Love: Where, When, How, Who | Martha Lagace | Fall 2019
- Medical Ethics | Lisa Rourke | Fall 2020
- Our Bodies Ourselves | Nicole Adams | Fall 2019
- Racial Difference and the Senses | Patrick Kindig | Fall 2021
- Reading and Writing Boston | Marsha Nourse | Spring 2021
- Sex and Advertising | Doug Kirshen | Spring 2020
- Social Media and Public Conversation | Jacob Berg | Fall 2019
- Storytelling in Business | Katrin Fischer | Spring 2021
- The Social Life of Sugar | Robert Cochran | Fall 2020
- Stories of Illness | Lisa Rourke | Fall 2019
- Truth or Truthiness | Gordon Ruesch | Spring 2021
- The Tyranny of Choice | Pyunghwa Lee | Spring 2019