<p>Is there anyway to get a coruse syllabus for a class before the term starts? Can you email the professor and ask for one (to be able to know what you'll be faced, for example)?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t advise it. It’s annoying to professors and some of them might still be writing the syllabus. Can you imagine how ticked they’d be if 10 or 20 people emailed them a week? I’d check the course websites. Some of them may already be up and if they are, chances are they’ll have a syllabus.</p>
<p>Some of the old syllabus are up on the school website’s department. Check to see if it’s there. If it’s a small class, I guess it’ll be okay to email them if you’re polite about it. Just tell them, you’re going to have a huge workload next semester and want to start earlier over the summer. I think they might understand.</p>
<p>Yeah, I went on my school’s math department’s site, and many classes have the syllabus online for students to access. Can’t hurt to try.</p>
<p>Sometimes teachers post their syllabus on the web (it’s for a previous year). Use Google. You may get lucky. Of course, there will probably be changes made to that syllabus (the one you get on the first day of class).</p>
<p>i wouldn’t send an email asking for one… you can probably find some syllabi for previous versions of the course, or maybe the professor’s already set up the course website already and you can poke around and see what you find. at most, if you’re on the fence about a course or want to know what it covers exactly (if the course description is a little vague…) you could e-mail asking for a general idea about what the course topics will be… but i wouldn’t actually ask for a syllabus so early.</p>