CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION: INDIVIDUAL COURSES

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In an effort to preserve and maintain its history, Yale University seeks to retain certain documentation concerning teaching and learning in individual academic courses at Yale.  Specific topics of interest include:

• General content of courses;
   
• Teaching styles and methods;
   
• Expectations and standards for student evaluation in individual courses; and
   
• The nature of learning taking place in the classroom.
   

Archival records (Permanent records should be transferred to the Archives.  Please arrange timing and frequency of records transfer with Archives staff.) Course syllabi and reading lists   Lecture notes and/or transcripts of lectures of junior faculty, senior faculty, and guest lecturers   Summaries, if available, of student evaluations   Teaching files of junior and senior faculty   Video recordings, audio recordings, electronic discussions, and photographs of classroom lectures, work, and presentations

Office of record Deans, instructors, and the Classes server (classes.yale.edu) maintain the record copy of documentation concerning individual courses.  Individual units that are not responsible for the creation of such records, but that maintain duplicates of such works or related materials, should destroy these files after they are no longer needed.

• Course packets, photocopies of published materials, and other reference materials