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Hi Holly and all, 

My experiences both here in the US and South Africa is that this is quite rare: instructors (faculty, adjuncts, grad students) are expected to put together their own courses, selecting textbooks, making up assignments, etc.  Especially for upper level courses if you don't want to/there isn't an obvious textbook choice, it can be quite time consuming, and there's often pressure to teach several different ones in the early years. 

Hopefully the resource over time can evolve to include assignments, reflections on textbooks, info about open access texts, etc. that can continue to make it easier to know what's happening elsewhere and learn from each other, but starting simple for now!

Kind regards,

Mary




Mary Lawhon
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
University of Oklahoma

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Holly Randell-Moon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Kia ora Mary,


This looks like a good resource however I'm confused as to why early career folks need to 'google' to find a sample syllabi, shouldn't this be provided by the institution they work for?


Ngaa mihi,

Holly.




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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers <[log in to unmask]UK> on behalf of Hillary Shaw <0000004f24593c23-dmarc-[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Geography syllabi repository
 
Great resource !!!  

One v small point - could we have the headings under 'syllabi'change to another colour than white when you put the mouse over them, makes them vanish just as you go to click on them?

But brilliant, will save many hours of work for a lot of us I'm sure,

Dr Hillary J. Shaw
www.fooddeserts.org



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From: Mary Lawhon <[log in to unmask]>
To: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM <[log in to unmask]UK>
Sent: Tue, Apr 10, 2018 6:25 pm
Subject: Geography syllabi repository

Dear all,

I know many early career folks end up spending hours googling for sample syllabi as they put together courses for the first (several) times.

We've created a website HERE that hopefully will make this process quicker and easier!

At present, it is simply a list of links categorized by general course themes for a loosely defined 'critical geography'.

If you have a syllabus (or, really, anything teaching-related) you would be willing to have shared publicly online, we'd be grateful for any additions!  

If yours is already online and we've missed it, please let us know!

Much thanks particularly to Doug Allen and Lene Le Roux for their hours putting this together.

Any additional feedback also most welcome: there's a collective address ([log in to unmask]) or straight to us is just fine too.

Kind regards,

Mary



Mary Lawhon
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
University of Oklahoma
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Mary Lawhon
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
University of Oklahoma