extracurriculum

extracurriculum

English

Etymology

extra- +‎ curriculum, or possibly a back-formation from extracurricular.

Noun

extracurriculum (plural extracurricula or extracurriculums)

1. The activities and groups, clubs, and societies that are sponsored or regulated by an educational institution but which are not part of the academic curriculum.
   • 1933, Francis Trow Spaulding, ‎Orie Isaac Frederick, ‎Leonard V. Koos, The Reorganization of Secondary Education: In Three Parts, page 285:

     In their extracurriculums the outstanding schools are distinguished by the following practices:

   • 1990, Ronald A. Smith, Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, →ISBN, page 134:

     A theme of rugged individualism on the part of college students running their own extracurricula pervades the period before the NCAA was born.

   • 1997, John Seiler Brubacher, ‎Willis Rudy, Higher Education in Transition, →ISBN:

     First there was the era of the church-dominated college with its unity of curriculum and extracurriculum, with its cohesive, self-contained life.

   • 2011, Barbara J. Bank, Gender and Higher Education, →ISBN, page 267:

     Because the extracurriculum was outside of the official curriculum, it was also outside of the control of faculty and college officials, who often found themselves in serious conflicts with students.