curriculum

Etymology

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

noun

1. The set of courses, coursework, and their content, offered at a school or university.
   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 subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108
   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, grappling with how climate will transform their fields and attempting to prepare students to face those transformations in the labor market. April 16 2021, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time
2. (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.