1. Name of institution
   
2. Semester and year
   
3. Course number and title
   
4. Room location (if applicable)
   
5. Meeting times

Instructor Contact Information
Required

1. Name and title
   
2. Telephone
   
3. Fax number (optional but highly recommended)
   
4. Email address (optional but highly recommended)
   
5. Web site URL (if applicable)
   
6. Office hours and location

Readings
Required

1. Required texts (if applicable)
   
2. Recommended texts (if applicable)
   
3. Texts on reserve in the Library or available elsewhere (if applicable)
   
4. Note about when reading assignments are due (recommended)

   It is highly recommended that readings be listed using the correct documentation style of the course discipline.

Course Description
Required

1. Summary of major course content
   
2. Prerequisites (if applicable)
   
3. Perspective on content (optional)

   The course description in the UH West O'ahu General Catalog should be used for this section, with additions as necessary or applicable.

Course Objectives
Required

1. Learning outcomes for course
   
2. Reference to institutional Learning Objectives

Course Requirements
Required

1. List and/or description of major assignments
   
2. List of examinations
   
3. Requirements for class attendance and participation

Grading Criteria
Required

1. Weighting of assignments, examinations, and class participation in final grades
   
2. Methods of determining final grade (e.g., percentages, curves, etc.)

Course Schedule
Required

1. Dates for scheduled classes (daily dates highly recommended)
   
2. Topics for class sessions
   
3. Activities for class sessions
   
4. Reading assignments
   
5. Written and oral assignments
   
6. Due dates for assignments
   
7. Dates for examinations
   
8. Note on whether reading assignments should be completed before or after class (optional)

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Turnitin Policy
Required

Use of Turnitin:

UH West O'ahu has a license agreement with iParadigms, LLC for the use of their plagiarism prevention and detection service popularly known as Turnitin. Faculty may use Turnitin when reading and grading your assignments. By taking a course where Turnitin is used, you agree that your assigned work may be submitted to and screened by Turnitin. Turnitin rates work on originality based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from both current and archived instances of the internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals. Turnitin does not make make a determination if plagiarism has taken place. It makes an assessment of the submission's originality and reports that to the course instructor. These Originality Reports are tools to help your teacher locate potential sources of plagiarism in submitted papers.

All papers submitted to Turnitin become part of Turnitin's reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. Use of Turnitin is subject to the Usage Policy as posted on the Turnitin.com web site.

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OPTIONAL:

Instructional Methods

• List and/or descriptions of instructional methods to be used in course

Policies or Expectations

The syllabus may contain policies on such items as:

• classroom behavior
  
• academic honesty
  
• late assignments
  
• class attendance
  
• class participation
  
• accommodations for the disabled
  
• campus safety
  
• and other responsibilities of instructor and/or students