In formal education, a curriculum (; plural: curricula, )'s the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of and experiences through which children grow and mature in becoming adults. Historical conception In The Curriculum, the first textbook published on the subject, in 1918, John Franklin Bobbitt said that curriculum, as an idea, has its roots in the Latin word for race-cours… (More on Curriculum)