survey course

noun

Education.

1. an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.

Word History and Origins

Origin of survey course¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

In Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school system, 11 courses can satisfy the district’s requirement, including a broad survey course and more specialized classes, such as African American Literature, American Indian Studies and Exploring Visual Arts through Ethnic Studies.

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They glued themselves to an art-history survey course’s worth of priceless works, from Picasso to Raphael to Botticelli.

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It’s a survey course of the directors responsible for making American cinema the most influential art form of the 20th century.

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Taken in sequentially, Lepore’s essays constitute a dizzying, entertaining and urgent survey course on contemporary American life.

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Only 12% had an intermediate foreign language requirement, 58% mandated a general mathematics course and 18% required a survey course in U.S. government or history.

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