DCHP-3

calendar

DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)

Spelling variants:
academic calendar, university calendar, course calendar

n. Education

a comprehensive guide to programs, courses, regulations and important dates at a college or university.

Type: 3. Semantic Change In Canada, calendar, academic calendar or course calendar in university contexts has come to mean the book, now the website, with all course listings and other academic information. As the citations illustrate, this use is found in various locations across the country. Course calendar is most frequent in Canada (see Chart 1). In many US universities, the academic calendar means something else, i.e. the list of academic dates throughout the year which is very frequent there (see Chart 2).
See also COD-2, s.v. "calendar" (4), which labels this meaning "Cdn", Gage-1, s.v. "calendar" (4), ITP Nelson, s.v. "calendar" (5).

Quotations

1966
No mere course calendar, the Guide is a student evaluation of more than 100 courses in third and fourth year arts, science and commerce, and includes assessment of content, lectures, tests and readings.
1977
Asked whether a high school graduate who cannot read a university calendar should be thinking of going to university, Mr. Blake replied: "People are bombarded today with so much information that a guidance counsellor may be at a loss to help a student find the accurate career information."
2007
Welcome to life on a modern university campus, where professors are discovering novel ways to engage a new generation of learners unwilling to settle for the offerings in a traditional course calendar.
2007
Thumbing through school calendars, promotional pamphlets and report cards is no way to choose a university.
2007
As an increasing number of adult learners demand online courses, universities and colleges are adding them to their continuing education calendars.
2007
In Canada, a growing number of schools list IMBAs on their course calendars.
2008
Meanwhile, over at MIT, among the 72 History courses in their online calendar I find "Medieval Economic History" and "Emergence of Europe, 500-1300," [...]
2015
When I was in Grade 8, my mom brought home the course calendar for some of the universities in Alberta that offer paleontology programs.

References

  • Gage-1
  • ITP Nelson
  • COD-2

Images


        Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 21 Mar. 2016

Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 21 Mar. 2016

Chart 2: Internet Domain Search, 21 Mar. 2016

Chart 2: Internet Domain Search, 21 Mar. 2016