correspondence course
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3.3
- noun
- /ˌkɔːrɪˈspɒndəns kɔːrs/
:
curso por correspondencia
- She completed her degree by taking a correspondence course that allowed her to study from home.
Examples
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Monica's structured coursework included three correspondence courses.
Academic text (2002) -
A long time ago, before he began training doves, Tom's father had undertaken a correspondence course entitled Our American Heritage.
Fiction book (1993) -
You got this job through a correspondence course.
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- I took a correspondence course.
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And it's not the kind of thing you can learn from a correspondence course.
Fiction book (1993) -
So, in order to graduate by January, I have to take one correspondence course.
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I'm taking French lessons by correspondence course.
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I took a legal correspondence course and I'm only two credits away.
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A correspondence course has been arranged in pre-algebra, so that a year of learning will not be lost.
Academic text (2008) -
The institute has 75 resident students, half of them women, and some 200 enrolled in correspondence courses.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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3.2
A course you do at home instead of in a classroom
1
3.9
A school that sends lessons by mail so people can study at home
How Remote
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'correspondence' (written communication by letters) modifies 'course' (a series of lessons), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a course delivered via correspondence (mail/remote). This noun+noun pattern is straightforward and common cross-linguistically, making the meaning predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Correspondence course comes from the old way of learning when teachers and students sent lessons and homework back and forth by mail. The word correspondence, meaning 'letters', joined with course to describe study done from far away, so the phrase now means study 'by mail or online'.