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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

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

I’ve met my teachers, gotten a syllabus, heard about classroom rules, and done things like play get-to-know-you bingo in each class I’ve had so far.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

Of course none of these plays are routinely read in high school or even college, but their absence from syllabi can be a virtue for audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 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

It is expected to add to the confusion of the first days of classes, a time when students typically make last-minute adjustments to schedules and professors review syllabi and outline class expectations.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 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

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

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

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

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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