cocurriculum

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noun

Synonym of extracurriculum.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nouncocurriculum (plural cocurricula or cocurriculums)

plural cocurricula · plural cocurriculums

  1. Synonym of extracurriculum.

    Allowing curriculums, cocurriculums, and services to be determined by political pressure rather than academic need is bad policy, particularly in hard financial times.

    2012, Arthur Levine, Diane R. Dean, Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student, →ISBN
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    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.

    1953, Franklin Royalton Zeran, Life adjustment education in action: a symposium, page 392

    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.

    1996, Frances K. Stage, College Students: The Evolving Nature of Research, →ISBN, page 213

    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.

    2018, Tamara Yakaboski, Brett Perozzi, Internationalizing US Student Affairs Practice, →ISBN

    Synonyms: extracurriculum

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of extracurriculum.

Origin

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APA

cocurriculum. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cocurriculum

MLA

“cocurriculum.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cocurriculum. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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