Throughout the course of my PhD, I've been helped by numerous friends and teachers on the construction of the syllabus. Most of this help was indirect, by way of them sharing their syllabi for various courses taught. I've done the same for other younger colleagues in my program as well as in my dissertation completion fellowship where we as graduate fellows had the freedom to create our own syllabus for the Fall-Spring semesters. This upcoming cohort of fellows were given our recent syllabi and hopefully that would be of service to them. I'm curious where syllabus falls under the idea of "intellectual property." It's also interesting to see that with the advent of Academia.edu and other digital avenues of collaboration, talking about syllabi and sharing them are now much easier than before.
Recent examples:
Peter Martens at SLU had a mini-crowd sourcing of ideas for his Fall 2018 course, "Alexandria and Antioch: The Bible's First Experts." People could join in via Academia and comment variously about the stuff he's already written up.
Michael Satlow at Brown posted his syllabus for the course, "Mishnah and Tosefta." This one is not crowd-sourced but he does write on his website "Should anyone be interested" (whatever that might mean).
I just wrote a post about writing syllabi for various courses so this is highly relevant.
If you are writing a syllabus for a course, how do you go about your business, and where does your syllabus (or another's syllabus) fall under the rubric of "intellectual property"?
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