A course syllabus design: initial steps and recommendations

The article attempts to highlight the importance of implementing a course syllabus design practices in Uzbek tertiary education. The syllabus is an introductory document that guides students throughout the entire course and functions as an asset to shape the initial impression on the course’s nature and its content. The constituent parts of a course syllabus are a general description and course objectives, topics, preliminary schedule of assignments, materials, grading plan, pre-set rules, and policies of class conduct. Also, the author discusses the basic syllabus sections and presents the guidelines on the points to be considered while designing a syllabus for the course.