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Questions in relation to syllabus which is an outline or summary of the subjects of a course of lectures or the contents of a curriculum.

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Disclaimer in syllabus, a good or bad idea for instructor and students?

Unless there is an unusually rigid set of controls and policies in the instructor's department, it is generally always the case that the instructor can change the syllabus on the fly. … With a poor instructor, on the other hand, I don't think that the situation can be rescued by making the syllabus more rigid. …
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Examples of a large-scale physics syllabus review

It's not physics, but a cousin at least: if I remember correctly, the MIT Mechanical Engineering department went through a major restructuring of its courses about 10-15 years ago, in which they chang …
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How can I politely explain to my students that the texts in my course are all in English and...

In many fields, you cannot be considered educated as an effective practitioner unless you know a particular language, because communications in that field are done in that language. For example, once …
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How to acknowledge a colleague's authorship of text in a syllabus

This sort of practice is quite common, and documents of this type are often treated as the "community property" of a department. This is a lot like authorship on a community wiki, where there is no e …
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