curriculum

See also: currículum

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

curriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)

1. (US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.
   • 2009 November 25, Gennady Stolyarov II, “Murphy on the Great Confusion”, in Mises Institute‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2024 November 22, Amanda Musa and Zoe Sottile, “Texas education officials approve optional school curriculum that incorporates Bible lessons. Some say it’s unconstitutional”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     Bluebonnet Learning materials will be part of a menu of curriculums available for school districts to use. […] Staci Childs, a member of the board who voted against Bluebonnet, told CNN Friday that although the curriculum is optional, she expects most districts will adopt it given the “huge financial implications” of the incentive.

2. (UK, Canada, Australia) The set of standards schools are required to teach all students.
   • 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:

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

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

Derived terms

• cocurriculum
• core curriculum
• covert curriculum
• curricular
• curriculum vitae
• extracurricular
• extracurriculum
• hidden curriculum
• subcurriculum

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers- (0 c, 49 e)

Translations

set of courses and coursework

• Arabic: مَنْهَج m (manhaj), مَنْهَج دِرَاسِيّ m (manhaj dirāsiyy)
• Bulgarian: учебен план m (učeben plan), програма (bg) f (programa)
• Chinese: 學校的全部課程 / 学校的全部课程
• 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)
• Ingrian: programma
• 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

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kurikulum/ [ku.ri.ku.lũm]
• Rhymes: -ulum, -um
• Hyphenation: cu‧rri‧cu‧lum

Noun

curriculum inan

1. curriculum
2. curriculum vitae

Declension

Declension of curriculum (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	curriculum	curriculuma	curriculumak
ergative	curriculumek	curriculumak	curriculumek
dative	curriculumi	curriculumari	curriculumei
genitive	curriculumen	curriculumaren	curriculumen
comitative	curriculumekin	curriculumarekin	curriculumekin
causative	curriculumengatik	curriculumarengatik	curriculumengatik
benefactive	curriculumentzat	curriculumarentzat	curriculumentzat
instrumental	curriculumez	curriculumaz	curriculumez
inessive	curriculumetan	curriculumean	curriculumetan
locative	curriculumetako	curriculumeko	curriculumetako
allative	curriculumetara	curriculumera	curriculumetara
terminative	curriculumetaraino	curriculumeraino	curriculumetaraino
directive	curriculumetarantz	curriculumerantz	curriculumetarantz
destinative	curriculumetarako	curriculumerako	curriculumetarako
ablative	curriculumetatik	curriculumetik	curriculumetatik
partitive	curriculumik	—	—
prolative	curriculumtzat	—	—

Further reading

• “curriculum”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

curriculum f (plural curriculums)

1. curriculum

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin curriculum.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

curriculum m

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

Synonyms

• curricolo

Related terms

• curricolare

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊrˈrɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kurˈriː.ku.lum]

Noun

curriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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: curricle; 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^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
    
• curriculum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[5], pre-publication website, 2005-2016