curriculum UK /kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.ləm/US /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/ noun3 •The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university. •The set of standards schools are required to teach all students.Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus. — 2018 •(no longer used) A racecourse; a place for running. formscurricula · curriculums