syllabus
SFU should release full course outlines sooner
November 1, 2021by Tamanna T., Staff Writer As winter descends upon SFU, so too does the chaos of course enrollment. Enrollment appointments for Spring 2022 start on November 8, 2021. Students can access MySchedule to plan classes from November 1, just a week before enrollment. Full course outlines need to be published before November 1 at the very least, and students should be notified promptly, so they have enough time to plan their courses and schedules. The anxiety around course-planning is real and it’s an important issue SFU needs to pay more attention to. At the time of writing, there are few…
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How to set yourself up for a successful semester
May 17, 2021by Maya Beninteso, SFU student Tip #1: Ease into a regular sleep routine I’m sure you have all heard some variation of this tip before, and remote learning does not lend itself to a perfect sleep schedule. However, it would…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Professors who don’t update their syllabi
April 7, 2021by Alesha Garcha, SFU Student I am tired of professors at SFU thinking their tenure means they do not have to adjust their syllabus, especially when their course’s failure rate is incredibly high. Students pay a premium dollar to learn,…
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Six things that make a good class syllabus
January 13, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Syllabus week brings up this primal, inescapable anxiety in me. Maybe it’s my fight-or-flight response activating when faced with a list of incoming shenanigans. Maybe it’s the undeniable excitement of breaking out my coloured pens and annotating…
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