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[sil-uh-buhs] / ˈsɪl ə bəs /


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According to the course syllabus, students examine questions such as: Who is responsible when a self-driving car injures someone or damages property?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

I revised the syllabus to accommodate the expanding model.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

At universities, the ban has restricted access to online research and course materials, with one Herat student saying he had used his phone to help with about half the syllabus.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Affected students' marks for the exam will be disregarded, with a mark instead being calculated for each student based on their performance in other components in the syllabus.

From BBC May 26, 2026

Under the United Party, the syllabus for African secondary schools and white secondary schools was essentially the same.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

To ensure the classes actually meet that objective, professors will have to make their syllabi publicly available.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Students hesitate before volunteering their opinions in class, while faculty appear more cautious, even including disclaimers in their syllabi.

From Salon Sep. 22, 2025

While most of his peers were still swapping syllabi and feeling out new professors, Mahdawi had started his day not in a classroom, but in immigration court—virtually, on Webex.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2025

Reges then wrote to an Allen School listserv saying he would continue putting his parody land acknowledgment in syllabi.

From Seattle Times May 7, 2024

I was ready to taste the dining-hall food, memorize the campus map, and conquer whatever syllabi they wanted to throw my way.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The story won the Paris Review’s 2013 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and has appeared on syllabuses at other universities.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

The notion is expressed in the survey results, which found wide variation in how faculty members mention AI use in syllabuses or whether they encourage or discourage AI in classes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

Discussion of new class schedules and syllabuses, and the excitement of students learning their friends were in the same course, filled the plaza between the Student Union Building and campus library Wednesday morning.

From Seattle Times Jan. 11, 2023

Professors often tweak their syllabuses each semester, but this year, the flood of precedent-busting decisions has forced many to reconstruct theirs from the ground up.

From Slate Oct. 2, 2022

Inquiry was made in several schools where natural science was taught according to the syllabuses of the Board of Education.

From The Education of Catholic Girls by Janet Erskine Stuart




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