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
   • But as the effects of climate change have become more visible in recent years, and the breadth of the transformation needed to fight it has become clear, law schools, med schools, literature programs, economics departments and more are incorporating climate into their undergraduate curriculums...2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2025
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.