cocurriculum

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

co- +‎ curriculum

Noun[edit]

cocurriculum (plural cocurricula or cocurriculums)

  1. Synonym of extracurriculum
    • 1953, Franklin Royalton Zeran, Life adjustment education in action: a symposium, page 392:
      Curriculum and cocurriculum have become more and more integral as high schools have moved forward to the kind of educational program that makes sense to youth and is likely to hold them in school.
    • 1996, Frances K. Stage, College Students: The Evolving Nature of Research, →ISBN, page 213:
      There is faith that the issue will yield to the concerted efforts of principled, committed educators — both those responsible for the curricula and those responsible for the cocurricula.
    • 2012, Arthur Levine, Diane R. Dean, Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student, →ISBN:
      Allowing curriculums, cocurriculums, and services to be determined by political pressure rather than academic need is bad policy, particularly in hard financial times.
    • 2018, Tamara Yakaboski, Brett Perozzi, Internationalizing US Student Affairs Practice, →ISBN:
      This overview does not assume to do justice to all work on CI, but given the limitations that exist in the implementation of such a comprehensive framework, the focus here is on cocurriculum through an alternative but complementary framework.