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I need to produce a syllabus for a course I'm going to teach at the University. Could you suggest me any example (or template) of a well-designed syllabus in LaTeX? Are there any useful packages?

Thanks in advance!

Hendrik Vogt
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Paolo
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    I write my course syllabi in LaTeX (here's an example), but I don't think a specialized template is really necessary: the basic machinery of sections, subsections and lists does the job pretty well, I find. – Kieran Feb 03 '11 at 13:21
  • Perhaps a more specific request would be easier to handle. What do you want your syllabus to look like? Why isn't plain LaTeX sections, lists, descriptions and so on enough? – Seamus Feb 03 '11 at 15:09
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    @Seamus They are more than enough! I'm just looking for some nice looking templates! The example linked by Kieran is very appealing. – Paolo Feb 03 '11 at 16:23
  • Possibly related to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/843/latex-classes-or-styles-for-schedules-and-or-calendars – Jan Hlavacek Feb 03 '11 at 18:39
  • @Kieran very pretty syllabus there. any chance you can share the corresponding .tex file? – abcd Nov 23 '15 at 21:13
  • @Kieran I second dbliss 's request! Absolutely beautiful template! –  Apr 11 '17 at 15:17
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    Nevermind— I found @Kieran 's files on his github— thank you so much for providing this! https://github.com/kjhealy/latex-custom-kjh –  Apr 11 '17 at 16:03
  • Glad people like it. Yes, the latex style files and .tex templates are here: https://github.com/kjhealy/latex-custom-kjh, and if you write in markdown/use pandoc then these might also be of interest: https://github.com/kjhealy/pandoc-templates. – Kieran Apr 12 '17 at 12:26

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The termcal package is very useful for dealing with the schedule of a syllabus, especially if you teach a course regularly or have multiple sections of a course. It generates a calendar for the course based on a starting date. Other than that, I don't think there's much need for anything more than regular sectioning commands (as others have mentioned).

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I would not think a syllabus needs any eye-candy design, so a simple LaTeX document would do the task.

I have found two templates thought worth to mention, the first from the University of Connecticut and the other one from Matt Mastin. I hope you could use these and good luck designing, customizing your own syllabus template!

daroczig
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