单词 | elective system |
释义 | > as lemmaselective system b. Of college or high-school studies: subject to the student's choice; optional. So elective system. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > optional elective1847 1847 in Ann. Rep. Harvard Coll. 1883–4 14 The elective system is now given up in this department. 1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. I. i. vii. 89 The system of elective studies pursued at Michigan [University] is one to which we are year by year tending in the English universities. 1880 Harper's Mag. July 254/1 In the German Universities the studies are all elective and optional; in the colleges of the United States compulsory. 1890 J. G. Fitch Notes Amer. Schools 59 In the high schools and universities the practice of prescribing ‘elective’ subjects is very common. 1957 G. G. Reader in R. K. Merton Student-Physician 84 Two months of elective work. 1969 Brit. Jrnl. Med. Educ. 3 102 There should be an elective period of, say, 10 weeks, in which the student should be able to choose from a wide variety of elective topics. < as lemmas |
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