Abstract
As computer-mediated communication (CMC) distance-learning programs increase, college writing faculty will be asked to adapt their regular composition courses for the computer-generated “cyberspace” classrooms of college online programs. One immediate concern is the course syllabus. A CMC online course demands a radically different course syllabus that takes full advantage of the verbal and textual merger that a computer-generated teaching reality creates. This article begins with an overview of the New York Institute of Technology's On-line Campus (OLC) program and then examines difficulties that arise in adapting a traditional course syllabus and structure to the “conceptual” classroom of a fully online composition class. The article next proposes an “evolving” syllabus as one solution to these difficulties. Finally, discussing issues that teaching an online course with an evolving syllabus has raised, the article poses questions about the role a traditional syllabus plays in classroom-based writing courses.
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