Timeline for in which situations could I refer to a course as "generic"?
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| Dec 7, 2023 at 21:15 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 6, 2023 at 15:32 | comment | added | jimm101 | Stockton University calls them "General Courses", the students all refer to them as G-courses. | |
| Dec 5, 2023 at 22:52 | answer | added | Andy Bonner | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 5, 2023 at 18:39 | comment | added | Barmar | "generic" seems like the right word -- it's for courses that aren't specific to a particular job or field. You could also say "general purpose". | |
| Dec 5, 2023 at 10:30 | comment | added | ralph.m | What about "generalist" courses? | |
| Dec 5, 2023 at 9:48 | comment | added | Henry | If you look at the titles of generic courses at the University of Oregon, you get things like "403 – Thesis" or "404 -- Internship", which are such non-specific titles (even if the course itself is different for each student) that you start to understand why they were labelled that way. | |
| Dec 5, 2023 at 9:16 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific. (Oxford Languages). Sounds OK for 'relevant to all employees'. | |
| Dec 5, 2023 at 9:14 | comment | added | Stuart F | You might call them "basic", "foundation", or "introductory" but that implies they're easy or for beginners. You might call them "common" but that might employ everybody has to do them. Maybe they think something like "general" isn't exciting enough, and "universal" is too exciting. There are lots of other words in a thesaurus, but if you have a catalog or offer courses you have a fairly wide freedom as to how you group them. | |
| Dec 5, 2023 at 8:25 | history | asked | ramenjunkie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |