If you Google "Promising Syllabus" on the Web, you will find almost 2000 sites.  Here are just a few of those sites.

• The Promising Syllabus, by James Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 26, 2006
  
  
• Some Examples
  
  
• Testimonials and Samples, San Diego City College
  
  
• Why Shakespeare?  Evergreen State (almost promising)
  
  
• The US and the World  Princeton University (almost promising)
  
  
• Promising Syllabus Testimonials
  
  
• Syllabus as Intellectual Argument and Guide for Learning, University of Wyoming
  
  
• Information Literacy or Literate Information, by Joseph McDonald
  
  
• The Promising Syllabus, A Slide Show
  
  
• Natural Critical Learning Environments
  
  
• Developing a Deep Learning Course, by Julian Hermida (a ppt for a workshop on the promising syllabus and deep learning)