correspondence course

American  

noun

1. a course of instruction provided by a correspondence school.

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Etymology

Origin of correspondence course

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

After taking a correspondence course in bookkeeping and accounting, she took over the books for the family enterprise.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023

After taking an architectural correspondence course and apprenticeship in his teens, the cocksure Ritchie had designed banks, opera houses and courthouses throughout Kansas by his early 20s.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

Mr. Moi eventually received a certificate in public accounting from London through a correspondence course, and in 1945, he began a career in government schools as a teacher and administrator.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2020

To help support his parents and four siblings, Philip left school at 14 to apprentice at his uncle’s hairdressing salon, then enrolled in a correspondence course at Britain’s Institute of Trichologists.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2016

A correspondence course in English; likes to read biographical novels and occasionally other kinds of novels.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank