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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
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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
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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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