extracurriculum
English
editEtymology
editextra- + curriculum, possibly as a back-formation from extracurricular.
Noun
editextracurriculum (plural extracurricula or extracurriculums)
- The activities and groups, clubs, and societies that are sponsored or regulated by an educational institution but which are not part of the academic curriculum.
- 1933, Francis Trow Spaulding, Orie Isaac Frederick, Leonard V. Koos, The Reorganization of Secondary Education: In Three Parts, page 285:
- In their extracurriculums the outstanding schools are distinguished by the following practices:
- 1990, Ronald A. Smith, Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, →ISBN, page 134:
- A theme of rugged individualism on the part of college students running their own extracurricula pervades the period before the NCAA was born.
- 1997, John Seiler Brubacher, Willis Rudy, Higher Education in Transition, →ISBN:
- First there was the era of the church-dominated college with its unity of curriculum and extracurriculum, with its cohesive, self-contained life.
- 2011, Barbara J. Bank, Gender and Higher Education, →ISBN, page 267:
- Because the extracurriculum was outside of the official curriculum, it was also outside of the control of faculty and college officials, who often found themselves in serious conflicts with students.