survey course

noun

, Education.

1. an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.

Word History and Origins

Origin of survey course¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

They glued themselves to an art-history survey course’s worth of priceless works, from Picasso to Raphael to Botticelli.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s a survey course of the directors responsible for making American cinema the most influential art form of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times

Taken in sequentially, Lepore’s essays constitute a dizzying, entertaining and urgent survey course on contemporary American life.

From Los Angeles Times

Only 12% had an intermediate foreign language requirement, 58% mandated a general mathematics course and 18% required a survey course in U.S. government or history.

From Washington Times

“I just lucked out,” she said, because the person teaching her survey course in art history was Marsha Tucker, founding curator of the New Museum, who nudged her toward the fledgling Whitney Independent Study Program in 1970.

From New York Times