The following information must be included on your Course Outline:

• Course number and name (e.g.MAT 098 Basic Algebra.

• Semester and year (e.g. Spring 2019)

• Instructor name and contact information including office location, SUNY Ulster email, and a phone number. I would recommend adjunct faculty not provide a private telephone number (it's OK if you want to, but be aware it may end up being problematic). The main Department number can be given (845-687-5230) and the department's Administrative Assistant will take a message.

• Office hour (as discussed on another page, this does not have to be in person although we do recommend this if at all possible).

• Textbook(s) and other materials (e.g. calculators) required and/or recommended.

• Objectives of the course (required by NYSED). A course description will suffice.

• Your attendance policy. This is at the discretion of the instructor. Faculty are no longer allowed to withdraw students if they miss a certain number of classes. You may, however, reduce the student's grade for missing classes although many instructors will not consider attendance at all in the student's grade. What ever your policy is, it must be clearly stated on your Course Outline. Also, remember that even if you don't count attendence toward a student's grade, you must still record attendance and report it to the College.

• An outline of the course content. This can be very specific (e.g. a topic for each date the course meets) or more general (e.g. we will cover chapters 1-10 in the text during the semester).

• Method of assessing the student's grade and what is required to complete the course. How will the student earn their grade? How many assignments will be given? How many exams? Are there papers? What are the percentages of each? I encourage you to be as clear as possible so that the students have a clear idea of how their grade will be assigned.

• The Final Examination option (comprehensive exam, unit exam, paper, presentation, etc.) that will be used.

What's Nice to Include

You may wish to include the following information, but it's not required:

• A department header. You can cut and paste a color or black & white header for your Course Outline from the previous links.

• The ISBN number of the textbook(s). Some students will request this anyway.

• A statement on academic honesty. I always include the following, feel free to copy or amend it as needed:

  Cheating and plagiarism of any kind is not tolerated and will be severely punished in accordance with UCCC policy as outlined in the current College catalog. All work on assignments, papers, labs, and exams must be your own. While I encourage students to work together, it is considered plagiarism if two or more people write exact word-for-word answers to an assignment or lab question. If you're unsure of what constitutes cheating or plagiarism, or have knowledge of someone else's cheating or plagiarism, please see me privately.

• Grade cutoffs for A, B, C, etc. The standard system used by our Department is shown below:

  There is no A+ grade			A	92.5% - 100.0%		A-	89.5% - 92.4%
  B+	86.5% - 89.4%		B	82.5% - 86.4%		B-	79.5% - 82.4%
  C+	76.5% - 79.4%		C	72.5% - 76.4%		C-	69.5% - 72.4%
  D+	66.5% - 69.4%		D	62.5% - 66.4%		D-	59.5% - 62.4%
  F	0.0% - 59.4%

• Campus resources available to the student - the Learning Center, the Writing Center, the Math Tutoring Center, the Library reference librarians, etc.

• A course bibliography of outside references, readings, resources, etc.

Examples

Below are five examples of acceptable Course Outlines:

• ESC 104 Physical Geology
  
• CSC 132 Web Application Development II
  
• MAT 095 Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning
  
• MAT 170 Calculus I
  
• PHY 109 General Physics I

Any Questions?

Ask, ask, ask! We're all happy to help and want you to do well and succeed as an adjunct instructor!