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syllabus

[sil-uh-buhs]

noun, plural -bus·es, -bi

[-bahy] .

an outline or other brief statement of the main points of a discourse, the subjects of a course of lectures, the contents of a curriculum, etc.

Law.

a short summary of the legal basis of a court's decision appearing at the beginning of a reported case.

a book containing summaries of the leading cases in a legal field, used especially by students.

(often initial capital letter) Also called Syllabus of Errors. Roman Catholic Church. the list of 80 propositions condemned as erroneous by Pope Pius IX in 1864.

Origin:
1650–60; < Neo-Latin syllabus, syllabos, probably a misreading (in manuscripts of Cicero) of Greek síttybās, accusative plural of síttyba label for a papyrus roll

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French students are expected to learn a particular syllabus.

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But sticking to the old syllabus has had little downside.

There's no denying that syllabus bloat is a real phenomenon.

French students are expected to learn a particular syllabus.

We fight the urge to bang our heads on the table, and go back once again to the syllabus to try to figure something out.

Your edited collection was invaluable in helping me prepare the syllabus.

For the first few weeks before and after a course begins, a syllabus gets a lot of attention.

The government is seeking to impose a standard, minimum syllabus.

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It also seeks to modernise the syllabus and improve teacher training.

The readings on the syllabus strike the students as an alien activity.

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There are scheduled webconferences with faculty as outlined in the course syllabus.

The syllabus called for the girls to write a report explaining why they were there, what they had done, and why it was wrong.

Is it plagiarism when a colleague borrows your syllabus and then uses it in its entirety for his.

The school has the same syllabus prescribed for the rest of the country's schools by the educational authorities.

Thus they recently gave us much more freedom to design our own syllabus instead of following a pre-defined.

The course's syllabus and slides will be freely available on iTunes as well.

Evolution is not an isolated concept that can be expediently omitted from a high-school biology syllabus.

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The university approves the course syllabus and instructor.

Just make sure the syllabus makes clear there will be periodic pop quizzes, or the litigious will sue.

Hiring committees have so much paper to go through that one carefully selected syllabus is preferable to several.

Still too little is known, acknowledged or integrated into the syllabus about learning to learn and the art of teaching.

Maybe it was the works on the syllabus or maybe it was the teaching style, but something clicked.

Whatever you do you are going to have to tailor your syllabus to what is available.

The book found itself in the syllabus by chance and not due to some extraordinary work.

She brought the syllabus and bibliography from her first couple of courses to the office.

Adjusting for participation is ethical if you said in the syllabus that it would or might be a part of the grade.

He still sends copies of the syllabus to students who ask about the.

Grades in my course, according to the nonnegotiable syllabus from the college, are made up of tests and essays.

Now she bans laptops in her large lecture courses and has a clause in her syllabus about the inappropriate use of technology.

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syllabus (ˈsɪləbəs)

—n , pl -buses, -bi
1.	an outline of a course of studies, text, etc
2.	(Brit)
	a. the subjects studied for a particular course
	b. a document which lists these subjects and states how the course will be assessed

[C17: from Late Latin, erroneously from Latin sittybus parchment strip giving title and author, from Greek sittuba]

Syllabus (ˈsɪləbəs)

—n
1.	Also called: Syllabus of Errors a list of 80 doctrinal theses condemned as erroneous by Pius IX in 1864
2.	a list of 65 Modernist propositions condemned as erroneous by Pius X in 1907

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syllabus

1656, "table of contents of a series of lectures, etc.," from L.L. syllabus "list," a misreading of Gk. sittybos (pl. of sittyba "parchment label, table of contents," of unknown origin) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's "Ad Atticum" iv.5 and 8. The proper plural would be syllabi,

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