curriculum

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ broad, broadly based, wide

▪ narrow

▪

Teachers feel that the present curriculum is too narrow.

▪ core

▪

Students choose from optional subjects in addition to the core curriculum.

▪ national, official

▪ mainstream

▪

His disability does not prevent him from following the mainstream curriculum.

▪ standard

▪ traditional

▪ academic, educational

▪ college, school, university

▪ primary, secondary (both esp. BrE)

▪ elementary-school, high-school, middle-school (all in the US)

▪ undergraduate

▪ course

▪ English, geography, mathematics, etc.

▪ comprehensive, rigorous (both AmE)

▪ hidden

▪

Children learn many of their attitudes to life from the hidden curriculum at school.

VERB + CURRICULUM

▪ create, design, develop, plan

▪ broaden

▪ change, revise

▪ implement

▪ introduce sth into

▪

Chinese has been introduced into the curriculum as an option.

▪ teach

▪ follow

▪ offer

CURRICULUM + NOUN

▪ content, subjects

▪ area

▪ materials

▪ design, development, planning

▪ aims, objectives

▪ change, reform, review

▪ committee (AmE)

▪ guide, specialist (both AmE)

PREPOSITION

▪ across the curriculum

▪

Students use computers across the curriculum (= in all or most subjects).

▪ in a/the curriculum (AmE), on a/the curriculum (BrE)

▪

Spanish is in the curriculum.

▪

They all have to study French because it's on the curriculum.

▪ within a/the curriculum

▪

the balance of subjects within the curriculum

PHRASES

▪ areas of the curriculum

▪

We cover all areas of the curriculum.