The following guidelines compose a partial - but not exhaustive - list of elements that help shape an effective course site. Keep in mind that course site goals will vary according to course and discipline.

Content

• does the site have clear pedagogical goals?
• what does it do that traditional teaching methods and materials don't?
• does the site include links to authentic, "real life" applications of the subject matter?
• how does the site increase communication between the learners and the instructor?

• what is your first impression of the site?
• is the site well-organized?
• is the site aesthetically appealing?
• has the site been updated regularly?

Physics
General Physics III at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Prof. Stephane Willocq has a nice selection of links based on the course topics.
Intro to physics. Check out the links to demonstrations of projectile motion, momentum conservation, and other sample material.  This site is part of Michigan State University's Virtual University--a collection of courses that are completely web-based. In his "help" page, Professor Wolfgang Bauer gives a very clear explanation why a web-based course does not preclude an absence of instructor/student contact.
Mark Tuominen's Introductory Physics II course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Prof. Tuominen has posted a final message to his students on the first page.
Chemistry
The Chemistry department here at Washington University has an extensive number of course sites available for introductory as well as advanced undergraduate courses. Each of the sites has different elements depending on the course goals. We encourage you to explore these impressive collections of web resources!
Analytical chemistry at the University of California Irvine.
A flashy first-year chemistry site at Wellesley College.
Advanced Analytical Chemistry at Florida State University.
Dr. Alber Haim's chemistry site at Stony Brook.  Do some exploring and you'll find out that the professor is a really big fan of the RCA "His Master's Voice" dog.
Biophysical Chemistry at University of California Berkeley.
Nanette Wachter-Jurcsak's Organic Chemistry course at Hofstra University.  This site has several graphics to help illustrate chemical processes.
Inorganic Chemistry 1 at MIT taught by Professors Christopher C. Cummins and Richard R. Schrock. Very nice navigation bar!
Genetics at MIT. Chris Kaiser and David Page have included lots of material in PDF format.
Biology
Bill Tietjen's Ecology course at Bellarmine College.  A very nice front page.
General Genetics at UC-Berkeley.  Nice selection of links.
Biocatalysis and Biodegradation at the University of Minnesota.  This is a student-friendly site--it allows each student to introduce him-or herself, and has an introductory questionnaire.
The Biology Project of the University of Arizona. Although it is not a course site, this project has a large number of activities and informational exercises on many different subfields of Biology.
The University of California at Santa Barbara also has a nice site for Biochemistry.  Check out the interactive molecular models.

Bill Cherowitzo's Higher Geometry I site at the University of Colorado Denver.  This site has online tests, and even lets you take make-up quizzes at home.
David Hayes' Computational Number Theory course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  There is a link to a site that will factor equations for you.
An intensive, interactive Boston University course on probability by Mark Glickman.
A basic linear algebra course site by Prof. Concha Gomez at Middleburry College.

English
"Contemporary women writers in the American West" at Rice University.
"The Gothic Novel." Spooky! Great use of images and graphics!
This English course on postmodernism at Vanderbilt University showcases student-made web sites.
The Literature and Culture of the American 1950's at the University of Pennsylvania.  Click on Web use to find out what parts of Prof. Al Filreis' site are the most popular.
English composition course at Lehigh University on "The multiculturalism debate in America."
Megan McClard at Metropolitan State College has a very nice page for her course:  "Advanced Composition."  It is very student-centered:  every student in the course has his or her own page where he or can post essays and a small autobiographical statement.  If you've ever worked in a retail store, you will appreciate Sarah Halford's essay:  "Greet and Beyond."
Ethnic American Poetry at Reed College.  Check out the "live" parrots!
Comparative Literature
Liberman Fellow Kamaal Haque's course page for Comp Lit 216: There Died a Myriad: The Literature of WW1.
Richard Langston's Comp Lit course page on violence in 20th century European avant-garde literature.
Frontier Crossings, a Comp Lit course at Brown University taught by Professor Conway.
Philosophy
Jesse Prinz's Theories of Concepts course here at Wash U.  Click on the brain to get to Prof. Prinz's homepage and see images of his brain.
Prof. Lynne Baker's Intro to Philosophy course at UMass Amherst includes several images of philosophers.
Philosophy and Logic at Harvard.  Notice that the handouts are scanned in, not imported from a word processing program.
Jennifer Susse's Medical Ethics course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has a link to Wash U's Med School!
History
History of the American Indians at Missouri Southern State college.
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~dmhirst/coursepage.htm  Prof. Derek Hirst's Reading the Body Politic in Early Modern England course here at Washington University.  Includes a link to the entire text of Hobbes' Leviathan.
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/index.html  This is not a site for a particular course; rather, this page on Galileo contains a lot of wonderful material on his life and work, and can easily be incorporated into a course.  See how A. Van Helden uses the project in his History 333 class located at http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~hist333
http://www.dohistory.org This is not a course site, but a site about the life of Martha Ballard, an eighteenth-century midwife.  The site could be adapted to be used for teaching, as the creators acknowledge.
Classics
Wash U's own Professor Conrad has got that web bug! Actually, there is a lot of Classics stuff on the web. This is a great way to spice up a so-called dead language to make it more appealing to undergrads.
A course on Greek political thought at Brown University with nice graphics and downloadable course readings. Developed by Kurt Raaflaub.
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Wash U's own Dick Langston's pages for German 301.  Don't miss the cool Andy Warhol painting of Franz Kafka.
Robert Godwin-Jones' German site at Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy has just about everthing you could ask for presented in an organized and appealing manner. Highly recommended. Nice exercises and e-texts too.
Lee Forster's German site at Hope College has a lot of great vocabulary lists.  Learn how to play Doppelkopf and impress your friends.
Romance Languages and Literatures
First-Year French "Texas-style" at the university of Texas Austin.
Although this online French course is not university affiliated, it's a great course page and has several ideas and resources.
Nicely-designed third-year French site at the University of Texas Austin.
Wash U's own Lynne Breakstone has created a wonderful French site full of great internet exercises.  Check out the Business French course page too.
Andrew Sobanet at the University of Pennsylvannia has great links on his French 110 page - including musical selections. It's nicely organized to correspond with the textbook chapters.
Doug Canfield's Page de Maison at the University of Oklahoma offers great links to French chat rooms and an on-line textbook.
Jorge Cubillos has a very nicely organized page for his intermediate Spanish class at the University of Delaware.
Although not a course page, Juan Ramon de Arana's Spanish page at Ursinus College provides some great ideas for web exercises.
Asian Languages and Literatures
Dialogue of Violence: Filmaking in WWII's Pacific Theater.  Don't miss the oral histories of people who lived through WWII.
Paul Halsall at Brooklyn College has one of the few Chinese course pages. He has a lot of material on-line:  readings, handouts, etc.  See if you can find the typo!
Check out Ohio State University's site for Japanese 101 and find out what "Nihongo e yoo koso" means!
Women's Studies and Gender Studies
Media in Cultural Context: Understanding Children's Culture a Women's Studies course taught by Professors Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins at MIT.
A crosslisted course (Women's Studies and English Literature) on the works of Herman Melville and Toni Morrison taught at MIT by Wyn Kelley. An interesting mix of text and multimedia in a course site.
Wash U graduate students Amy Cislo and Sarah McGaughey's course sites for Intro to Women's Texts. Taught Spring 2002.

Art and Art History
Reed College has an amazing site for its Studio Art Department.  Select a division from the pull-down menu to look at individual course sites.
History of Photograhpy at Eastern New Mexico University
Susan Ressler at Purdue University has an interesting course on Women Artists of the West.
Performing Arts
"The Music of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel" at Stanford University.  Click on the symbols to hear beautiful music!
West Virginia University's Music Fundamentals course site by Gil Trythall.  Learn to compose your own music using "Band in a Box."
Katherine Norman at the University of North Dakota has an attractive site for her course:  "Concert Band Literature."  This is a very student-centered site--it even has an on-line photo of the members of the class.  Even if you aren't enrolled in the class, you can contribute to the site by contributing suggestions.  This may be the only time in your life you will see Bryan Adams and Bach listed on the same page.
World Theatre at Washington State University.

Steve Borgatti at Boston College has a nice site for his Introduction to Organizational Behavior course.

In addition to looking at the individual listings, the following resources provide an almost limitless supply of course sites in every discipline:

http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/world/lecture/  World Lecture Hall.  This site contains worldwide links to faculty and course pages.  It is divided by discipline.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/PUT/courses/taskforce.html  Vanderbilt University's site:  "Pedagogy Using Technology."
http://www.fsu.edu:81/clue/  Go here to find the homepage of any Florida State University course.  Good example of variations of concept of "course pages."
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/academic/courseweb.html  Rice University has a huge selection of course pages.