Curriculum

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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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