Obviously, folks teach intro to phil in at least a million different ways and, probably, there are many ways to do it really really well. I work in a program where instructors have a lot of latitude in how they develop their 101 course, but I need to develop something like a set of guidelines which (1) allow instructors reasonable flexibility and creativity in selecting course texts while (2) providing for at least some kind of reasonable set of parameters that could be transparently applied in, say, a course audit.

If anyone works in a program where such standards exist, I'd be really happy to see them. If anyone has seen a really interesting and effective syllabus and wants to offer some edge cases that such a policy would need to attend to, then I'd be happy to see those. If anyone has just seen and/or written a lot of syllabi and wants to lay out how they think through developing a reading list, I'd be happy to see that too.

Again, what I'm specifically interested in here are approaches to selecting readings. My intuition is that a reading list needs to be interestingly diverse and could contain a wide range of things (fiction, book chapters, journal articles, classic primary texts, secondary/summary sources).