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syllabus

[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

I assumed teams would stay intact because the syllabus said “team.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

“Your syllabus plainly states that passing notes or doing any work other than class work is done at your own risk.”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The evidence comes from Daniel Buck of the American Enterprise Institute, who examined syllabi for programs at eight public graduate schools of education across five states.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

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

I was an English major back then and read so much Shakespeare, and you can look at syllabi now and see students still do.

From Salon Oct. 8, 2024

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 still have the syllabi from all my classes, and David’s been bringing me assignments.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

After, the dream: bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize finalist, his book on syllabuses across the country, invited to speak at literary events worldwide.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2024

And the book is now being added to syllabuses: One high-school teacher, says Garmus, is making her students read “Lessons in Chemistry” for a class on the American dream.

From New York Times Nov. 16, 2022

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

Time-tables, schemes of work, syllabuses, record books, progress books, examination result books, and the rest,—hours and hours are spent by the teachers on the clerical work which these mechanical contrivances demand.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes




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