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CURRICULUM (curricula)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does curriculum mean?
• CURRICULUM (noun)
The noun CURRICULUM has 1 sense:
1. an integrated course of academic studies
Familiarity information: CURRICULUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An integrated course of academic studies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
course of study; curriculum; program; programme; syllabus
Context example:
he was admitted to a new program at the university
Hypernyms ("curriculum" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Meronyms (parts of "curriculum"):
course of lectures (a series of lectures dealing with a subject)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curriculum"):
crash course; crash program; crash programme (a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency))
reading program (a program designed to teach literacy skills)
degree program (a course of study leading to an academic degree)
Derivation:
curricular (of or relating to an academic course of study)
Context examples
To create and encourage a stimulating approach to disease curricula that will attract high quality students, foster academic career development of promising young teacher-investigators, develop and implement excellent multidisciplinary curricula through interchange of ideas and enable grantee institution to strengthen its existing teaching program.
(Academic/Teacher Award, NCI Thesaurus)
To create and encourage a stimulating approach to disease curricula that will attract high-quality students, foster academic career development of promising young teacher-investigators, develop and implement excellent multidisciplinary curricula through interchange of ideas, and enable the grantee institution to strengthen its existing teaching program.
(Academic Career Award, NCI Thesaurus)
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