Word: syllabus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SYLLABUS FOR PROFESSOR MICHAEL PETRIK'S criminal-justice class at New York's Nassau County Community College promised a course on "alternatives to prison." Little did his students know how far he'd go to teach his lessons. The professor, 30, confessed last week to helping two inmates escape from a medium-security prison in upstate New York. State police say Petrik provided the two, who were serving time for murder and robbery, with a tool to cut the prison's chain link fence, then drove them to Manhattan. Colleagues were predictably "shocked" that the professor had helped...
...Gates say that his criteria are somehow more justifiable? Clearly the blind acceptance of all texts of difference would be a syllabus writer's nightmare, but don't the very structures an institutions of acceptance and denial ensure that some people will remain voiceless...
...This year's sourcebook went up pretty substantially, from [about] $50 to $63," says John Owen, head section leader for Historical Study A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World." "I'm not an expert, but I think the changes in the syllabus and the permissions was responsible for that...
...fact, when my fellow students and I requested a change in the syllabus earlier this year, Noel (with the help of our other tutor, Peter Linebaugh) commenced to revamp the course to our satisfaction...
Deposited on a table near the theater'sentrance was a fake syllabus, listing units suchas "Casablanca, Citizen Kane, TheGodfather, Blah, Blah, Blah" and "The CannesFilm Festival "Do you know, do you know, do youknow, do you know the answer...