Can a syllabus be considered a publication?

[Theasaurus]

Just as the post reads, I'm wondering if the syllabus I wrote can be considered a publication to list on my application. If not, is there anything else to list it under?

The problem is, I'm applying to a graduate program for Speech-Language Pathology, but I'm an out-of-field applicant. My background is in conservation (museum artifacts). I've been working at a campus museum for the past three years, and I was asked to write a syllabus in textiles conservation for their new textiles minor last year. It's really the only publication I have to my name. It was tons of work and it's currently being used for a class, but I'm just not sure it's relevant to my future program. I currently have it listed under my job description for employment even though it was something completely separate from my work duties. Where to include? Should I even bother including?

Any thoughts would be helpful.

-T

[Eigen]

It seems like you may be defining syllabus a little differently than what I'm used to. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to expand on exactly what was in it? I've made up several, but none were near the workload you seem to be intimating, so I'm thinking yours might be a bit different.

Publications usually only contains peer-reviewed publications.

If anything, I'd think your syllabus would go under teaching experience- usually a syllabus is made to design/lay out a course of study, so it's a course preparation type thing.

[Theasaurus]

Thanks for your feedback. Putting it under teaching experience does seem like a better fit though I'm still debating if I should include it at all.

It was just a standard course syllabus. I guess I didn't mean to say it was tons of work, but it did a chunk of my time outside of my job to lay it out and develop an appropriate course plan for a new minor. This was my first one, so I was bound to analyze and tweek every little detail

[Eigen]

I completely understand- I had to re-write the syllabus for a course I was taking in a very new direction from the previous instructor last year, and it took quite a bit of time to iron out all the details.

I think it will be a good display of teaching experience, and would probably be worthwhile to include there.

[Timshel]

To be honest, it sounds like CV padding. If you've taught, it's understood that you wrote syllabi. If anything, that is what I would list under the teaching assignment, like "constructed syllabi, administered all tests, etc."

I have been teaching at a university for 3 years, 4 classes a semester on average, and there is no way I am going to include every syllabus I wrote.

[Eigen]

The main difference here, I think, is field dependent. It's rare and a good thing for someone in the STEM fields to have had teaching experience through the point of writing a syllabi- most of the time, teaching in those fields is grading/lab TAing, in which you don't really create syllabi and exams and design the course. From that perspective, it's worth mentioning the design/planning aspect.

[tt503]

Don't include the syllabus under publications (doing so would probably get you laughed at), but include a description of your time at the museum (under "relevant experience" or something of that nature) mentioning that one of your jobs was to create a syllabus for that particular course.

[SomedaySLP]

I wouldn't include it as a publication (seems silly), but agree that you should definitely include it in your experience on your resume. I'm also applying to SLP programs and you shouldn't stress about not having anything published at this point--it's very rare that people in our field have published before (or even after, unless you go into research) grad school.