Course

Course can refer to:

• Course (navigation), the path of travel
• Course (sail), the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vessel
• Course (education), in the United States, a unit of instruction in one subject, lasting one academic term
• Course Atlas (education)
• Course catalog (education)
• Course of study, in the Commonwealth of Nations and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a programme of education leading to a degree or diploma
• Course of employment, a legal consideration of all circumstances which may occur in the performance of a person's job
• Course (medicine), a regime of medical drugs, or the speed of evolution of a disease
• Course (music), a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and played together to give a single note, in a stringed instrument
• Main course, the primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses
• Course (architecture), a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material, in a wall
  • String course, a continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall
• Course (orienteering), a series of control points visited by orienteers during a competition, marked with red/white flags in the terrain, and corresponding purple symbols on the map
• Coursing is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs

Course may also refer to:

• Golf course, an area of land designated for the play of golf
• Obstacle course, a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate for sport

See also

• Coarse (disambiguation)
• Courser (bird)
• Courser (horse)
• Course (ambiguous texture)