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The syllabus is what you're taught; the curriculum is why someone decided that.
means The set of courses and coursework that make up a program of study.
from Straight from Latin curriculum, 'a running, a course' — the word runners used for a race or racecourse, from the verb currere, 'to run' (the same root gives us current, courier, and cursor). Scottish universities picked it up in the 1600s to mean a course of study, and the metaphor is exact: you're sprinting a fixed track someone laid out in advance, laps and all.
- latin root
- means racecourse, as in a lap to run
- hidden curriculum
- the unwritten lessons taught alongside the official ones
- plural form
- curricula, if you want to sound insufferable
- real purpose
- sequencing what you forget in what order