Mapping Your Course: Designing a Graphic Syllabus for Introductory Finance

In this article, the authors offer a powerful teaching tool, the graphic syllabus, to help instructors meet the unique challenges of teaching introductory finance. This tool, a visual representation of the topical organization of the course, supplements and clarifies the text syllabus. The authors explain the instructional advantages of graphics, describe how to design a graphic syllabus, and provide an example of one for the introductory finance course. In the Appendix, they enumerate the available graphics software for composing a graphic syllabus.