: a course treating briefly the chief topics of a broad field of knowledge
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In Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school system, 11 courses can satisfy the district’s requirement, including a broad survey course and more specialized classes, such as African American Literature, American Indian Studies and Exploring Visual Arts through Ethnic Studies.
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Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
Some of the more in-depth survey courses back then even posited that these walls of protection were proximate causes of the whole collapse of trade leading to a clueless President Herbert Hoover’s inability to avert the worst downtown in our nation’s history.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024
And if that sometimes makes the album seem like a survey course in British underground music of the last 40 years, well, seldom has getting educated been such a blast.
—Reed Jackson, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2024
Well, prepare to take notes on a veritable survey course on navigational and constitutional law.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Taken in sequentially, Lepore’s essays constitute a dizzying, entertaining and urgent survey course on contemporary American life.
—Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
Teaching the survey course would benefit the faculty as well.
—Wight Martindale Jr., WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
In a grand survey course, Mansfield introduces students to ancient political philosophers, medieval political philosophers, and modern ones.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Oct. 2022
Speaking with Calbi can feel like taking a survey course in rock and pop history.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2021
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Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
Some of the more in-depth survey courses back then even posited that these walls of protection were proximate causes of the whole collapse of trade leading to a clueless President Herbert Hoover’s inability to avert the worst downtown in our nation’s history.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024
And if that sometimes makes the album seem like a survey course in British underground music of the last 40 years, well, seldom has getting educated been such a blast.
—Reed Jackson, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2024
Well, prepare to take notes on a veritable survey course on navigational and constitutional law.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Taken in sequentially, Lepore’s essays constitute a dizzying, entertaining and urgent survey course on contemporary American life.
—Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
Teaching the survey course would benefit the faculty as well.
—Wight Martindale Jr., WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
In a grand survey course, Mansfield introduces students to ancient political philosophers, medieval political philosophers, and modern ones.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Oct. 2022
Speaking with Calbi can feel like taking a survey course in rock and pop history.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2021
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“Survey course.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/survey%20course. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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