A friend of mine, Steve Triche, made a study of the term curriculum
and since I knew "syllabus" to be involved I passed on to him Paul's
question as to " when "syllabus" first began to be used as the
outline of the material to be used in a college course?"
From: "Steve Triche" <striche@ix.netcom.com>
To: <te-sst@nich-nsunet.nich.edu>, "John St. Julien" <stjulien@UDel.Edu>
Subject: Re: Re: today's fun fact
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:09:16 -0500
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John, the date and the misprint sound about right. But, the concept of
a formal plan for what a course would cover and the use of this plan as a
contract begin about two centuries earlier with the formation of the first
universities ( teaching corporations - guilds) for the teaching of
teachers. Paris being the dominiate of these as the corporation of arts
and other masters from the Cathedral School of Nortre Dame, the monastery
school at St. Victors, and the Church school of St. Genevieve's. As one
might expect, it was the students who demanded such a contract, ensuring
that they would be taught specifically what would be required to pass the
test to become first a Bachelor (a teaching apprentice) and then the
Master's exam, which was a first oral, moving to a written form by the late
15th century.
Steve.
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> From: John St. Julien <stjulien@UDel.Edu>
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> Subject: Fwd: Re: today's fun fact
> Date: Saturday, August 19, 2000 2:42 PM
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Steve,
Can you help these guys out?
John
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>Peter,
>
>Any idea of when "syllabus" first began to be used as the outline of
>the material to be used in a college course?
>
>Paul H. Dillon
John St. Julien (stjulien@udel.edu)
School of Education
University of Delaware
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