Pl. -ula. [L., = course, career (lit. and fig.): see above.] A course; spec. a regular course of study or training, as at a school or university. (The recognized term in the Scottish Universities.)
1633. Munimenta Univ. Glasg. (1854), III. 379. Finito anni curriculo discessurum. Ibid. (1643), II. 317. Curriculum quinque annorum.
1824. J. Russell, Tour Germ. (1828), I. iii. 134. When the [German] student has finished his curriculum, and leaves the university.
1829. Glasg. Univ. Cal., 39. The curriculum of students who mean to take degrees in Surgery to be three years.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 84. The completion of the entire curriculum of metamorphosis.
1888. Burgon, Lives 12 Gd. Men, II. ix. 201. Butler’s immortal Work has … been elbowed out from the Oxford curriculum.
