core curriculum

American  

noun

Education.

1. a curriculum in which all or some of the subjects or courses are based on a central theme in order to correlate the subjects and the theme.

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Example Sentences

"Northern Ireland has changed a lot since the last core curriculum was put together and I think it is certainly a time for a revision of what we teach and how we teach as the core curriculum. So in that sense, I'm quite sanguine about the whole thing."

From BBC

Bishop McKeown said "there are questions to be asked", adding he is positive about "the need for a new RE core curriculum" and is "quite open" to seeing where this goes.

From BBC

Do liberal arts schools present students with a core curriculum that expects them to master foundational subjects like economics, a foreign language, composition and natural sciences?

From The Wall Street Journal

The Obama administration offered waivers of those standards but in exchange demanded that schools teach a common core curriculum and measure teacher competency Washington’s way.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It’s therefore so important that we all hold the new government to their pledge to restore creative subjects to the core curriculum. All of us - here, in television, not just the arts."

From BBC