What's the difference between curriculum and cursory?

Curriculum


Definition:

  • (n.) A race course; a place for running.
  • (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (2) The effect of this curriculum is measured by statistical analysis of resident-generated aesthetic surgery cases in one year following the introduction of this curriculum into the teaching program.
  • (3) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (4) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
  • (5) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (6) The further disappearance of laboratory exercises from the curriculum should be halted by efforts to revitalize them.
  • (7) Twenty-six female students in either their first or fourth (i.e, final) semester of the occupational therapy curriculum were assessed with the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP) (Yukor, Block, & Younng, 1966).
  • (8) Measures of effect of the training found the following: a significant increase in knowledge scores, although the trainees came into the program with relatively high scores; a heightened awareness and increased positive attitudes toward aging; high ratings of performance on a functionally oriented comprehensive health assessment; and augmented geriatric curriculum and clinical training in their home PA programs.
  • (9) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (10) Two thirds of the patients had a better curriculum than one would expect from the IQ.
  • (11) One factor contributing to this problem has been the absence of courses on motor vehicle injury from the curriculums of the health professions schools.
  • (12) Clinical education is integrated throughout the curriculum, and a calendar is developed based on the content of the learning experiences rather than the traditional university calendar.
  • (13) The practicum was designed to meet two objectives in the undergraduate curriculum: (1) to give students experience in the care of patients and families in the community by using cancer as a model of a life-threatening disease requiring acute and chronic care, rehabilitation, etc.
  • (14) While progress has occurred in some schools, the teaching of nutrition has not generally been integrated into the curriculum of the medical school.
  • (15) In fact, it is possible that the student with life experience could be considered one of the motivating forces that drives the curriculum revolution toward its eventual victory.
  • (16) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
  • (17) The original goals were to increase the number of family physicians, provide them with the basic knowledge and skills to practice, integrate the concepts of family medicine into the total medical school curriculum, and develop the "attitudes and ideals" of the good family physician.
  • (18) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
  • (19) Certain recurring curriculum problems have emerged and have been described as "diseases of the curriculum."
  • (20) In a long-term follow-up of a study designed to assess the impact of school-based suicide prevention curricula on high school students, a group of 174 students from two high schools who were exposed to a prevention program were compared with a group of 207 control students from two additional high schools who were not exposed to the curriculum.

Cursory


Definition:

  • (a.) Running about; not stationary.
  • (a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of these are accomplished simultaneously with a cursory survey to identify immediately life-threatening injuries and to prevent permanent disability.
  • (2) It is clear that any investigations they have conducted have been cursory.
  • (3) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
  • (4) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
  • (5) A cursory trawl reveals a long list of employment tribunals and strikes by low-paid workers in these outsourcing companies.
  • (6) Further, it only takes a cursory look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website to see that they are embroiled in a bitter and ongoing feud with Isis.
  • (7) The statements to this point only give a cursory review of the beginning (20 years) of the kinetic approach to the classification of lipoproteins and subsystems which are involved in their synthesis and metabolism.
  • (8) Morphological differences are primarily related to locomotor patterns as reflected in the degree of cursoriality displayed by bovids in different habitats.
  • (9) In the past, says Hogan, they tended only to give them a cursory glance.
  • (10) Writer Feargus O’Sullivan thinks of the presence of artists and creative workers as adding a “cursory sheen to a place’s transformation”, describing the process as “ artwashing ”.
  • (11) But it was as much their mistakes as those of Moyes that led them to Tuesday's cursory announcement .
  • (12) In this chapter, while we review in a cursory way the older findings with glucocorticoid hormones, we concentrate on the newer developments which suggest that leukocyte- and pituitary-derived ACTH and endorphins perform regulatory functions within and between the immune system and the pituitary-adrenocortical axis.
  • (13) Yes, the ad included such issues as agriculture and the environment, but only the most cursory mention.
  • (14) The UK's cursory submission to the commission is in fact based on a February 2012 report titled Creating the Conditions for Integration .
  • (15) If anyone doubts that people do not care enough about wildlife then a cursory look at the emails, tweets, letters and calls that have flooded into the RSPB in recent days will open their eyes.
  • (16) The text which has to be easily understandable, mentions: a cursory description of the clinical signs of the different decompression accidents the measures which have to be taken in each case, depending on: the moment of the emergency: after or during decompression, the presence of an insufficient decompression, or a "blow-up".
  • (17) We didn’t actually fully investigate them, we just made a cursory visit and went back to all of our keyboards looking at everybody’s emails and text messages.
  • (18) I don’t think that a cursory look at the budget is enough for people to understand what we’re really getting at.
  • (19) According to one survey, just 4% of women do this, and a cursory glance around the globe hints it is not exactly common practice elsewhere.
  • (20) This is only a cursory view of the complexities one encounters when attempting to understand women, how and why they behave the way they do, how they respond to the health care system, what some of their influences are, and what we must all do together to help them help themselves and us, to provide them with a longer, more productive, rewarding and healthy life span.