Sample syllabi

[syllabi]

Just wondering...

When a school asks for sample syllabi, do you send actual syllabi from courses you've taught in the past or a made-up syllabus for a course you'd like to teach in the future? Or maybe a mix of both: a juiced-up version of a syllabus you've used? I've been doing a mix but I'm just wondering if there's a standard out there.

Obviously these questions only pertain to undergraduate syllabi.

[what ive done]

I don't know the standard but what I've done is to include syllabi for courses they are hiring someone to teach. In a couple of cases, these have been courses I have already taught. But for one job I created from scratch 2 brand new syllabi b/c the ones I have taught do not demonstrate my ability to teach the ones they want. (I also included a syllabus that I had carried out). This was time consuming and difficult to do but it was also fun because I wasn't constrained by a real calendar.

My hunch is that they want to see a syllabus to see that you know how to build a good one, to see what approaches you take, to see if your way of teaching course X aligns with their curricular goals, etc.