Talk:Syllabus

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I don't think we can still say "Within many courses concluding in an exam, syllabi are used to ensure consistency between schools and that all teachers know what must be taught and what is not required." First, this statement implies coordinated efforts between various colleges and universities regarding syllabi. Second, these documents now carry a legal connotation, serving as contracts between instructor (acting on behalf of the institution, I guess)and student. While some institutional groups (Colorado Community College System, for example) impose loose curricular guidelines on a few freshman courses to guarantee in-state transferability, we have not yet adopted standardized lesson plans. Colleges agree to general categories of objectives and competencies ("Understand and develop writing as a process in college"; "The Narrative Essay") as educational goals, but instructors decide how to help students reach those goals. To this nascent instructor, boilerplate contractual statements regarding attendance, performance, and grading appear to be mandatory as legal protection for institutions, rather than individual instructors. Finally, I know professional discourse is considering the ethical questions surrounding standardized syllabi. Any comments?Djredus 15:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds legitimate to me. At my school, the professors always make the "covered material" section of the syllabus exorbitant, because they can subtract from it, but not add to it, by school policy (e.g. contract style), but this is not always the case.

Can we get some links to pages to help show how to write a Syllabus?

You can check Syllabus section of http://www.techbirbal.com which provides syllabus of Mumbai, Pune and Delhi University for Engineering Studies —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.183.136.230 (talk) 18:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that one is a bit hard for me to swallow as well. Perhaps it needs to die? SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

There needs to be a citation for the issues surrounding the pluralizing of "syllabus." I'm in my 3rd year of Ancient Greek training, and I cannot find the Greek source word this article points to (σιττύβα). I do find "συλλαβή," which seems like a better candidate. Plus, this issue with Cicero's mistransliteration definitely needs a citation. Was he quoting a greek work? What work was it? These issues need to be addressed. cheapham 15:24, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there's no other mention of these plurals on the internet, except in direct quotation. The word "syllallabussesi" looks like a joke to me. Earcatching (talk) 17:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)