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curricula

UK/kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.lə//kəˈɹɪk.jə.lə/

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curricula is the plural of curriculum.

Meaning of curriculum

Noun

curriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)

  1. (US) 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.2009 November 25, Gennady Stolyarov II, “Murphy on the Great Confusion”, in Mises Institute
  2. (Australia, Canada, Philippines, UK) 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.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...
  3. (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.

Phrases with curricula

Words that rhyme with curricula

Questions about curricula

What is curricula the plural of?
Curricula is the plural of curriculum.
How do you pronounce curricula?
Curricula is pronounced /kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.lə/ (UK).

Words near curricula in the dictionary

  1. Curricabark
  2. currick
  3. curricks
  4. curricle
  5. curricles
  6. curricula
  7. curricula vitae
  8. curricula vitarum
  9. curricula vitæ
  10. curricular
  11. curricularization

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