Our Philanthropy Advisory Fellowship at Harvard University Effective Altruism Student Group has just published an EA course syllabus that we developed: http://www.harvardea.org/blog/changemakers
We hope this can be a helpful resource for EA groups at other schools to encourage faculty to create new courses on EA.
This is great, thanks a lot for sharing! One thing I'd add would be criticism voiced against (certain aspects) of EA as well as disagreements between different approaches to EA (e.g. short-term vs. long-term prioritization - an example being the idea that one should purchase cheap clothes made in sweatshops and save more to donate vs. the idea that such an action would have negative economic and social long-term consequences, etc.). As an academic syllabus, I think it's important to add critical views, which would nicely fit the content of the course in any case :)
Hmm... I think that providing sweatshop jobs has positive economic and social long-term consequences, because it brings people out of extreme poverty. I think the main drawback is the non-utilitarian criticism of sweatshops as "exploiting" people. Most people do not recognize that sweatshops are orders of magnitude safer than living in extreme poverty where something like 20% of your children die. But even if people were aware of that, they could still say that since sweatshops do not have the same safety standards is the developed country factories, it is somehow unfair to those workers - they are not getting justice.