Alexis Akira Toda

Alexis Akira Toda

Mathematical economist

Syllabus template

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As I am preparing for my first teaching assignments at Emory, I started from creating a syllabus template. My department provided a Word template, which was not exactly to my taste, so I wrote a template in \(\LaTeX\) here. The version titled syllabus_template.tex follows the basic structure of the Emory economics template, and the version titled syllabus_template_toda.tex adds some of my information that I use across all my courses. A few comments:

  • I used the moderncv package, which looks nice.
  • To make the syllabus colorful, I defined the color pantone as \definecolor{pantone}{RGB}{1, 33, 105}, which is the official Emory color, and used the titlesec package to use that color for section titles.
  • I defined the \note command to add important notes.
  • As usual, biblatex is very useful for creating reading lists. There are so many ways to customize.

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