survey course

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Recent Examples of survey course 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. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025 Some of the more in-depth survey courses back then even posited that these walls of protection were proximate causes of the whole collapse of trade leading to a clueless President Herbert Hoover’s inability to avert the worst downtown in our nation’s history. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024 And if that sometimes makes the album seem like a survey course in British underground music of the last 40 years, well, seldom has getting educated been such a blast. Reed Jackson, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2024 Well, prepare to take notes on a veritable survey course on navigational and constitutional law. Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Taken in sequentially, Lepore’s essays constitute a dizzying, entertaining and urgent survey course on contemporary American life. Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023 Teaching the survey course would benefit the faculty as well. Wight Martindale Jr., WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022 In a grand survey course, Mansfield introduces students to ancient political philosophers, medieval political philosophers, and modern ones. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Oct. 2022 Speaking with Calbi can feel like taking a survey course in rock and pop history. Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for survey course
Noun
  • The three energy topics on everyone’s lips at the OPEC seminar The Secretariat’s home is a cavernous building, where journalists are typically relegated to a basement media room.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 11 July 2025
  • In 2023, several of the investors from the real estate seminars filed a lawsuit against both Envy and the Pinas.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • That way, if things fall through or if the clinic or entity fail, the community will be deprived of that service, but in a way that other services might be set up in advance to help catch those critical patients that may fall through the cracks.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
  • Despite emergency treatment at the facility's clinic and the main Doral shelter, veterinarians were unable to stabilize Rocky, leading to his death.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • The signing ceremony, between the CNC’s Bruel and BFI director BFI Chief Executive Ben Roberts, was preceded by a tour of the institute’s BFI Southbank home.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 July 2025
  • This new one is a slim shot from CLASH, about a man recovering from a foot injury and remembering his time working for an institute that studied (among other things) black holes.
    Drew Broussard July 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025

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