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syllabus

[sil-uh-buhs] / ˈsɪl ə bəs /


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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

But the syllabus today is at a tipping point.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 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

When he adds Wexford-Smythe University, we get pictures of a tree-lined campus and the course syllabus for their infrared astronomy program.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

At Tulane, it had been seminars, 50 kids in a session, textbooks and unwavering syllabi.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 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

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

The archive now has more than 20,000 objects from about 6,000 artists and others: props and costumes from performances, letters, studio leases, pay stubs, rental receipts, police reports, handwritten process notes and class syllabi.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 27, 2023

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

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

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

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

By the spring of 2021, the College Board had hired a young scholar to direct the course’s development and began collecting college syllabuses.

From New York Times Feb. 13, 2023

Very careful syllabuses were prepared and widely circulated, and the whole scheme was intended to be educational rather than directly propagandist.

From The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease




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