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== Etymology == [[File:Petrus Ramus Tabula Artium 1576.jpg|thumb|First published use of "curriculum" in 1576]] The word "curriculum" began as a [[Latin]] word which means "a race" or "the course of a race" (which in turn derives from the verb ''currere'' meaning "to run/to proceed").<ref name="oed">''Oxford English Dictionary'', "Curriculum," 152</ref> The word is "from a Modern Latin transferred use of classical Latin curriculum "a running, course, career" (also "a fast chariot, racing car"), from currere "to run" (from PIE root *kers- "to run")."<ref name="etym">{{cite web |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/curriculum |title=Curriculum |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.etymonline.com |publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date= 29 November 2019}}</ref> The first known use in an educational context is in the ''Professio Regia'', a work by [[University of Paris]] professor [[Petrus Ramus]] published posthumously in 1576.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZTcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA55|page=55|title=Towards a Theory of Schooling|first=David|last=Hamilton|isbn=9780415857086|year=2014|publisher=Routledge }}</ref> The term subsequently appears in [[University of Leiden]] records in 1582.{{sfn|Hamilton|2014|p=7}} The word's origins appear closely linked to the [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] desire to bring greater order to education.{{sfn|Hamilton|2014|p=47}} By the seventeenth century, the [[University of Glasgow]] also referred to its "course" of study as a "curriculum", producing the first known use of the term in English in 1633.<ref name="oed"/> By the nineteenth century, European universities routinely referred to their curriculum to describe both the complete course of study (as for a degree in surgery) and particular courses and their content. By 1824, the word was defined as "a course, especially a fixed course of study at a college, university, or school."<ref name="etym"/>
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