Curriculum

/kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.ləm/ · noun

Meaning

(US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university..

Definitions by Sense

1. (US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.
2. (UK, Canada, Australia, Philippines) The set of standards schools are required to teach all students.
3. (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.

Example Sentences

Perhaps someday my old US history teacher, and men like him, will use The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression in their courses to balance the many explicitly pro–New Deal and prointerventionist texts and presentations that dominate public-school curricula today.

But as the effects of climate change have become more visible in recent years, and the breadth of the transformation needed to fight it has become clear, law schools, med schools, literature programs, economics departments and more are incorporating climate into their undergraduate curriculums, grappling with how climate will transform their fields and attempting to prepare students to face those transformations in the labor market.

Bluebonnet Learning materials will be part of a menu of curriculums available for school districts to use. […] Staci Childs, a member of the board who voted against Bluebonnet, told CNN Friday that although the curriculum is optional, she expects most districts will adopt it given the “huge financial implications” of the incentive.

Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.

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