curriculum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   The set of standards schools are required to teach all students.

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

3. 3
   noun

   an integrated course of academic studies

4. 4
   noun

   A racecourse; a place for running.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). Doublet of curricle.