Definition of "orientation course" []

• A course introducing a new situation or environment (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "At that time, a half-day orientation course had been offered up in Albany, and the only member of the staff willing to spend the time had been the most recent employee, a flighty young woman named Duane Anne, who’d just wanted the day off from regular work, and who in any case had shortly afterward enlisted in the navy."