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extracurriculum en · NOUN

Etymology

From extra- + curriculum, possibly as a back-formation from extracurricular.

Meanings

1. The activities and groups, clubs, and societies that are sponsored or regulated by an educational institution but which are not part of the academic curriculum.
   • Because the extracurriculum was outside of the official curriculum, it was also outside of the control of faculty and college officials, who often found themselves in serious conflicts with students. 2011, Barbara J. Bank, Gender and Higher Education, →ISBN, page 267:
   • First there was the era of the church-dominated college with its unity of curriculum and extracurriculum, with its cohesive, self-contained life. 1997, John Seiler Brubacher, Willis Rudy, Higher Education in Transition, →ISBN:
   • A theme of rugged individualism on the part of college students running their own extracurricula pervades the period before the NCAA was born. 1990, Ronald A. Smith, Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, →ISBN, page 134:
   • In their extracurriculums the outstanding schools are distinguished by the following practices: 1933, Francis Trow Spaulding, Orie Isaac Frederick, Leonard V. Koos, The Reorganization of Secondary Education: In Three Parts, page 285:

Forms

Synonyms

cocurriculum