Questionnaire on Syllabi, 2023–2024

This questionnaire developed out of the workshop ‘Worlding Art History through Syllabi’ which we as WPC co-organized in October 2022 together with the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. The workshop invited over twenty international scholars to present and discuss their approaches to designing and using syllabi to teach global art history. Over the course of two days, understandings of what a syllabus is and how it is used came to be questioned, shedding light not only on the role of personal teaching preferences, but also on departmental, institutional and even national agendas, language barriers, and the influence of collaborative approaches to teaching (particularly across higher education institutions, and museums). The questionnaire was developed in conjunction with the responses of participants, a number of whom agreed to continue the conversation and share personal insights into their use of syllabi.