survey course
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of survey course
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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Taken in sequentially, Lepore’s essays constitute a dizzying, entertaining and urgent survey course on contemporary American life.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023
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.
From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2023
The book “reads like an impassioned survey course on migration, laying bare the origins of mass migration in searing clarity,” our reviewer, Lauren Markham, writes.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2019
Here’s Meyers’ survey course in the president’s weekend tweets, complete with links:
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2019
This edition of Lodge's "Rosalynde" has grown out of a need felt by the editor for an example of Elizabethan prose suitable for use in a general survey course in English, designed for college freshmen.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
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