correspondence course

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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

The twins decide to enroll in a writing correspondence course, which is both their salvation and their downfall.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Mr. Moi eventually received a certificate in public accounting from London through a correspondence course, and in 1945, he began a career in government schools as a teacher and administrator.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2020

A correspondence course in English; reads everything except detective stories.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank