Definition of "curriculum" []

• All the courses of study offered by an educational institution. (noun)
• A group of related courses, often in a special field of study: the engineering curriculum. (noun)

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• "So the curriculum is a mishmash of this and that -- discrete details of a main point that does not register."
• "David Nunan, for example, argues that the curriculum is the totality of what actually happens in an educational setting:"
• "They stand for nothing and the curriculum is a man, head full of straw."