syllabus
noun
syl·la·bus
ˈsi-lə-bəs 
plural syllabi
ˈsi-lə-ˌbī
-ˌbē
or syllabuses
1
: a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements
2
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In a recent study of 27 million college syllabuses collected by the Open Syllabus Project, scholars at Claremont McKenna College showed that professors rarely assign readings that take contrasting perspectives.
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Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
Skills have a shelf life, knowledge is iterative and no syllabus can compete with the pace of real-time innovation happening outside institutional walls.
—Alex Goryachev, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Literature also plays a supporting role in Sorry, Baby, with an entire syllabus—Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation, among others—scattered like Easter eggs through the film.
—Jen Wang, Vogue, 27 May 2025
The Apu Trilogy sits on every canonical-movie syllabus and has had obvious influence on filmmakers around the world, but this is not some homework assignment to get through; each of these films is sweet, relatable, and engrossing.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
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Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
Skills have a shelf life, knowledge is iterative and no syllabus can compete with the pace of real-time innovation happening outside institutional walls.
—Alex Goryachev, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Literature also plays a supporting role in Sorry, Baby, with an entire syllabus—Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation, among others—scattered like Easter eggs through the film.
—Jen Wang, Vogue, 27 May 2025
The Apu Trilogy sits on every canonical-movie syllabus and has had obvious influence on filmmakers around the world, but this is not some homework assignment to get through; each of these films is sweet, relatable, and engrossing.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
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“Syllabus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syllabus. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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syllabus
noun
syl·la·bus
ˈsil-ə-bəs
plural syllabi
-ˌbī
-ˌbē
or syllabuses
: a brief outline (as of a course of study)
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