curriculum

See also: currículum

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪkjələm/, /kɚˈɪkjələm/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/, /kɜː(ɹ)ˈɪk.juː.ləm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

curriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)

1. The set of courses, coursework, and their content, offered at a school or university.
   • 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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 108:

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

   • 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.

Derived terms

• core curriculum
• curriculum vitae
• extracurricular
• hidden curriculum

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers-‎ (0 c, 45 e)

Translations

set of courses and coursework

• Arabic: منهج، نظام‎
• Bulgarian: учебен план m (učeben plan), програма (bg) f (programa)
• Chinese: 學校的全部課程
• Czech: studijní program m
• Danish: pensum n
• Dutch: curriculum (nl) n
• Finnish: opetussuunnitelma (fi), opetusohjelma
• French: cursus (fr) m
• German: Lehrplan (de) m, Studienplan m, Bildungsplan m, Curriculum (de) n, Lehrzielvorgabe f
• Greek: πρόγραμμα σπουδών (prógramma spoudón), διδακτέα ύλη f (didaktéa ýli)
• Hungarian: tanterv (hu)

• Maori: marau mātauranga, marautanga
• Norman: tchuthitchulum m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: studieordning m or f

  Nynorsk: studieordning f

• Polish: program nauczania m
• Portuguese: currículo (pt) m
• Russian: курс обучения m (kurs obučenija), уче́бный план m (učébnyj plan)
• Serbo-Croatian: kurikulum (sh) m, nastavni program m
• Spanish: currículo (es) m
• Swedish: läroplan (sv) c
• Tagalog: talaaralan
• Thai: หลักสูตร (th) (làk-sùut)
• Turkish: müfredat (tr)
• Ukrainian: навча́льна програ́ма f (navčálʹna prohráma), ро́зклад m (rózklad)
• Vietnamese: chương trình giảng dạy

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French

Noun

curriculum f (plural curriculums)

1. curriculum

Further reading

• “curriculum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin curriculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/
• Rhymes: -ikulum
• Hyphenation: cur‧rì‧cu‧lum

Noun

curriculum m

1. curriculum
2. curriculum vitae, CV; resume: summary of education and employment experience

Synonyms

• curricolo

Related terms

• curricolare

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Latin

Etymology

From currō (“run, move quickly”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/, [kʊrˈrɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/, [kurˈriːkulum]

Noun

curriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension

1. a race
2. a racecourse
3. a racing chariot

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	curriculum	curricula
Genitive	curriculī	curriculōrum
Dative	curriculō	curriculīs
Accusative	curriculum	curricula
Ablative	curriculō	curriculīs
Vocative	curriculum	curricula

Related terms

• currō

Descendants

• → Catalan: currículum
• → English: curriculum
• → French: curriculum
• → German: Curriculum
• Italian: curricolo
• Norman: tchuthitchulum
• Portuguese: currículo
• Spanish: currículo, carrejo

References

• “curriculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curriculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• curriculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
    
• curriculum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016