noun / verb
course
KORSS/kɔːrs/
A planned path or sequence followed toward an end.
The learner takes a pottery course, watching the instructor demonstrate how to shape clay.
Etymology
A running or journey suggested movement along a prescribed path, then an ordered sequence of stages. A course of study applies that idea to a planned progression of lessons.
In context
credit hours are like the experience points of college courses each course is worth a certain number and they indicate how many hours per week students will spend in that class
More examples
- Water courses through the channel toward the mill.
- The election changes the course of the country's history.
- The golf course has eighteen holes.
- He completes a ten-day course of antibiotics.
Forms
course · courses · coursed · coursing
coursework noun — Work assigned during an educational course.