curricular

adjective

cur·​ric·​u·​lar kə-ˈri-kyə-lər How to pronounce curricular (audio)
: of or relating to a curriculum

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Activist governing boards Issues of academic freedom also arise when those without scholarly expertise become involved in academic and curricular decisions. Isaac Kamola, The Conversation, 29 July 2024 Beyond Chicago, curricular representations and educational funding for Native students remained a nationwide problem. TIME, 25 Nov. 2024 In addition to the relative paucity of U.S. students who study abroad and the obstacles that stand in the way of increasing that number, there exists another problem: a lack of curricular and socioeconomic diversity among those who do go overseas. Sanford J. Ungar, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016 Likewise, though the comparison would probably embarrass him, David Cromer did something with Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in 2009 that manages, to this day, to keep haunting a play that’s as canonical as Romeo and Juliet, as curricular as To Kill a Mockingbird. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for curricular 

Word History

Etymology

curriculum + -ar

First Known Use

circa 1909, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of curricular was circa 1909

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“Curricular.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curricular. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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