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syllabus

[sil-uh-buhs] / ˈsɪl ə bəs /


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In 2015, with jamming and cyberattacks no longer hypothetical, the Navy put the subject back on the syllabus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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 her thorough coursework and off-the-beaten-path syllabus of films opened my eyes to countless new ideas and perspectives.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

But the syllabus today is at a tipping point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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

You tell Muse to check the syllabi for her classes and order all the books to her dorm room.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

Professors are fearful, editing their syllabi and watching their speech, as they navigate the boundaries of compliance, Smith said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

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

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

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

The book that first lifted Caro to fame and made him a staple of journalism-school syllabuses is “The Power Broker,” his novelistic 1974 portrait of cutthroat New York city planner Robert Moses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 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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