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

Over the next decade, this man, who studied engineering by correspondence course, was responsible for the nine exquisite bridges that spanned the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 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

This started what became a kind of correspondence course with the prisoners in the general section.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela