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Definition: Curriculum |
CurriculumNoun1. A course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curriculum" was first used: 1824. (references) |
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Education | The whole body of courses offered by an educational institution or one of its branches (widening the college --). Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CurriculumSynonyms: course of study (n), program (n), syllabus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Teaching | Exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, initiation, A.B.C.; (beginning). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Hidden Curriculum (1984) | |
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Menander of Athens | The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The French State shall always have the right of establishing and maintaining, as incidental to the mines, primary or technical schools for its employees and their children, and of causing instruction therein to be given in the French language, in accordance with such curriculum and by such teachers as it may select. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | The curriculum was usually rudimentary; ungraded schools were common in rural areas; the school term was but three months a year in many states; and compulsory school attendance was virtually unknown. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Curriculum development is urgent. (references) | |
In the course of training, they refined the curriculum to better suit the needs of program participants. (references) | ||
Language is essential not only for learning the school curriculum, but also for building social relationships. (references) | ||
Business | Most private schools have softball and volleyball in their curriculum (Physical Education subject). (references) | |
As with softball and volleyball, soccer (called football) is primarily a required subject in the school curriculum. (references) | ||
The sport is in the curriculum of most private schools and universities where inter-collegiate basketball competitions are common. (references) | ||
Children | Bosnia and Herzegovina | A harmonized school curriculum was developed for use by all teachers. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Arab groups note that the public school curriculum stresses Israel's Jewish culture and heritage. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The first truly joint curriculum, using the same lessons and materials in all three-school systems, was introduced at the high school level in the fall. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | Officially religious instruction is prohibited in the public school curriculum. (references) |
Greece | An additional 150 attended 2 bilingual middle schools with a religious curriculum. (references) | |
Malaysia | For Muslim children, religious education according to a government-approved curriculum is compulsory. (references) | |
Economic History | Marshall Islands | The elementary program employs a bilingual/bicultural curriculum. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | It has an international school with a U.S. curriculum that goes through high school. (references) | |
Malaysia | These community colleges will be skill-based oriented and they need expertise in developing a standard curriculum. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mongolia | A human rights course is a requirement in the university law curriculum. (references) |
Latvia | These programs form part of the basic curriculum for all police officers. (references) | |
Morocco | The Government continued efforts to introduce human rights as a core subject of the national school curriculum. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | They must pay rent for their facilities and meet local curriculum requirements, building codes, and safety standards. (references) |
Yugoslavia | The Federal Ministry of National and Ethnic Communities has proposed a new curriculum, that would include studies on Hungarian art, history and music. (references) | |
Egypt | Although there was improvement in some areas, such as the introduction of the Coptic era into history curricula in all government schools and increased coverage of Christian subjects in the mass media, discriminatory government practices persisted, including suspected statistical underrepresentation of the size of the Christian population for the last census (1996), discrimination against Christians in public sector employment, discrimination against Christians in staff appointments to public universities, failure to admit Christians into public university training programs for Arabic language teachers (because the curriculum involves study of the Koran), and payment of Muslim imams through public funds (Christian clergy are paid with private Church funds). (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Private universities are not subject to direct government control; however, professors also exercise self-censorship, and the educational curriculum and language of instruction are determined by the Government even in religiously based schools. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | As part of the capital markets program, USAID also supports accounting reform by 1) improving the regulatory framework; 2) assisting in the conversion of enterprises to a new International Accounting Standards based accounting system; 3) supporting the development of professional self-regulation; and 4) promoting university curriculum reform and partnership development. (references) |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | The new guidelines will permit foreign schools to be set up based on pre-approved curriculum. (references) |
Women | Egypt | A discussion of FGM and its dangers has been added to the curriculum of the school system. (references) |
Swaziland | Although gender sensitization is not part of the formal school curriculum, some schools have organized debates and other mechanisms to address gender issues. (references) | |
Tanzania | There is no law that specifically prohibits FGM. The country's educational curriculum does not include instruction on FGM, but the problem is covered occasionally in secondary schools. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | Tibetan curriculum high schools exist in a few areas. (references) |
China | Many ancient or religious texts are banned from the curriculum for political reasons. (references) | |
China | Primary schools at the village level follow a Tibetan curriculum, but these schools usually have only two or three grades. (references) | |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Opening up the teaching profession to all qualified candidates, merit pay, so that good teachers get A's as well as apples, and stronger curriculum, as Secretary Bennett has proposed for high schools. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We're not going to spend money on curriculum that will not teach our children how to read. |
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| "Curriculum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.99% of the time. "Curriculum" is used about 5,137 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.99% | 5,085 | 1,930 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.7% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (common) | 0.31% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,137 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "curriculum": Core curriculum ♦ cross curriculum programme ♦ curriculum material ♦ curriculum vitae ♦ National Curriculum Council ♦ school curriculum ♦ spiral curriculum. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "curriculum": curriculum-based, curriculum-controlled, curriculum-deviance, curriculum-employment, curriculum-general, curriculum-in-action, curriculum-led, curriculum-making, curriculum-on-offer, curriculum-related, curriculum-specific. | |
Ending with "curriculum": across-the-curriculum, cross-curriculum. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "curriculum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | program mësimor (schedule, syllabus), plan mësimor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منهاج الجامعة, منهاج الدراسة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | учебен план, курс на обучение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 课程 (Curricula, curricular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | studijní plán, osnovy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | studieordning, pensum, laeseplan (syllabus), fagplan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | curriculum, programma (declaration of policy, platform, programme, statement of policy), onderwijsprogramma (educational curriculum, school curriculum, school subjects, subjects taught, teaching curriculum, training curriculum), leerplan (teaching plan), formeel curriculum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اموزش برنامه , دوره تحصیلات , برنامه تحصیلی , برنامه اموزشی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | opetussuunnitelma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | programme scolaire (educational curriculum, school curriculum, teaching curriculum, training curriculum), programme d'études. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lehrplan (course of instruction, syllabus), Studienplan (degree course scheme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σχολικό πρόγραμμα, σειρά σπουδών, σειρά μαθημάτων (course), πρόγραμμα μαθημάτων, διδακτέα ύλη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תכ ית למו"ים (syllabus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tanterv (syllabus), tananyag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rencana pelajaran (schedule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | programma scolastico (educational curriculum, school curriculum, school subjects, subjects taught, teaching curriculum, training curriculum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 課目 (course, subject), 課程 (course), 科目 (course, subject), 教育課程 , 教科 (subject), 教程 (textbook), カラー写真 (ballads sung by Karashima Midori, calif, California, California roll, calligraphy, carat, caricature, caricaturize, caries, cauliflower, charisma, charismatic, color photo, colorful, column, Kaliglas, Karachi, karaoke, karat, potash glass, potassium, water outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうか (bridge girder, civilization, comictanka, culture, education, intensify, reinforce, solidify, strengthen, subject), きょういくかてい, きょうてい (agreement, arrangement, boat race, pact, textbook, the bottom of one's heart), かもく (course, shy, silent, subject, Tuesdays and Thursdays), かてい (assumption, course, family, home, household, hypothesis, process, river bed, supposition), カリキュラ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교육과 (Curricula). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coorse (career, circuit, course, racetrack, reef, route, routine, row, travel, way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | undervisningsplan, pensum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urriculumcay currículo (curriculum vitae), programa escolar (educational curriculum, school curriculum, school subjects, subjects taught, teaching curriculum, training curriculum), programa de estudos (playbill, syllabus). (various references) plan de studii, plan de învãţãmânt (catalogue). (various references) учебный план, курс обучения. (various references) lenanethuto. (various references) nastavni plan (syllabus). (various references) currículo, plan de estudios (syllabus), horario (horary, hour, hour hand, schedule, timetable, time-table), historial profesional. (various references) lärokurs, kurs (class, course, heading, line, rate, rate of exchange, school, tack, track, trajectory). (various references) müfredat (syllabus), öğretim programı. (various references) розклад (analysis, calendar, contamination, decadency, decomposition, dissipation, schedule, syllabus, time sheet, timetable), курс навчання. (various references) cwrs addysg, cwriwcwlwm, maes llafur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | curriculum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curriculum": curriculums. (additional references) | |
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"Curriculum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cerriculum, circulum, cirriculum, cluricaun, coriculum, corniculum, corriculum, curicullum, curiculum, curricul, curriculam, curriculem, curriculm, curriculo, curriculumm, currliculum, curruculum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "curriculum" (pronounced keri"kyulum) |
| 7 | -i" k y u l u m | diverticulum. |
| 4 | -u l u m | pendulum, tantalum. |
| 3 | -l u m | alum, antebellum, asylum, bedlam, column, emblem, exemplum, flagellum, fullam, golem, hoodlum, pablum, phylum, problem, slalom, solemn, Solum. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-m-r-r-u-u-u" | |
-4 letters: cumuli, curium, mucluc. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-m-r-r-u-u-u" | |
+1 letter: curriculums. | |
+2 letters: cirrocumulus. | |
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