Other forms: curricula, curriculums
A curriculum is the official plan of everything a school must teach. The national curriculum, the curriculum was changed, on the curriculum.
The plural is curricula or curriculums. In England the National Curriculum sets what state schools teach at each stage; private schools and academies have more freedom. The hidden curriculum is what pupils learn from how a school is run rather than from lessons. Note curriculum vitae, meaning the course of a life, which is the CV; and that curricular and extracurricular come from the same word.
1nouncurriculumThe official plan of what a school must teach.
“Coding is now part of the primary school curriculum.”
curriculum is a plan of study.
Latin curriculum means a running course, from currere, to run — the same verb behind current, courier and occur. A curriculum is the track a pupil runs along, and a curriculum vitae is the track of a life.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱers-
Latin
curriculum — course
English, today
curriculum
Built from
Latin curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). a doublet of curricle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA