curriculum

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SUN PRAIRIE - This year the theme for the Academic Decathlon curriculum is Latin America with a focus on Mexico and two area teams plan to go right to the source to study it.

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  1. noun All the courses of study offered by an educational institution.
  2. noun A group of related courses, often in a special field of study: the engineering curriculum.

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  • The intent was to make Indians Episcopalians, and white students clergymen; and the assumption being that between the whites and the aborigines there was little difference, the curriculum was an ecclesiastic medley. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
  • Perhaps dreaming back to the idyllic days when he and John Page, under the charismatic spell of William Small, had been intoxicated with the sheer thrill of learning, Jefferson insisted that the Virginia curriculum should be almost entirely elective, with each student allowed to pursue his interests wherever they led. —  Understanding Thomas Jefferson
  • The length of the course, one year, was quite inadequate, the curriculum was antiquated and reactionary. —  The Life of Sir William Hartley, ebook, etext
  • Descutner said the rest of the faculty will not need additional compensation, because updating and revising their curriculum is already a part of a faculty member†™ s normal work. —  The Post: News
  • The curriculum was abandoned principally because the group could not agree on a curriculum, and there were not enough incentives offered to teachers who would have to teach the course.
 

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  1. Latin, course, from currere, to run; see current.

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  1. from Latin curriculum, a running, a course: see curricle, n.
 

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/kəˈrɪkjuləm/
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