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[sil-uh-buhs] / ˈsɪl ə bəs /


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The answer is that Maya Annik Bedward’s film doubles as an impressive cinematic syllabus.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

His challenge was to make this lesson more than just another unit on the syllabus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Professors who are Luddites or have used the same syllabus for years sometimes struggle to get out of that state of inertia, Cook said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

The government's November 1954 draft syllabus was a retreat from the original notion of modeling the school system on tribal foundations.

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

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

Administrative representatives at the university’s main campus in Anza and a branch campus in Mill Valley, Calif., did not have documents readily available related to student and faculty rosters and class syllabi, officers said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

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

Only a dozen or so students are there, fumbling with notebooks and syllabi.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Campus syllabuses have been pared down to accommodate this generational change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

And it’s not just judges; it’s the litigants, the lawyers, the law professors who have to tear up their syllabuses.

From Slate ● May 14, 2024

Since then, some high school teachers have also included the book in their syllabuses.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

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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