correspondence course

Example Sentences

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After taking a correspondence course in bookkeeping and accounting, she took over the books for the family enterprise.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023

After taking an architectural correspondence course and apprenticeship in his teens, the cocksure Ritchie had designed banks, opera houses and courthouses throughout Kansas by his early 20s.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

In high school, Kingsolver took a correspondence course in philosophy, read Hume, Kant and Tolstoy when her peers were making out in cars, and won a piano scholarship to DePauw University in Indiana.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

A third relates to a rigorously structured kind of correspondence course.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2020

“Mrs. Levy won’t let us retire her. She thinks it’s better for Miss Trixie to keep active. Mrs. Levy is a brilliant, educated woman. She’s taken a correspondence course in psychology.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole