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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
correspondence course
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a correspondence course in Chinese
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Continuing a correspondence course is easy; finding another part-time degree may be less so.
▪ For families outside the local area, a correspondence course available in 23 languages currently serves 2,500 families from around the world.
▪ He is also charged with taking a correspondence course at the University of California at Berkeley.
▪ He returned to Carriacou and qualified as a solicitor through a London University correspondence course.
▪ The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular.
▪ They both signed up for a five-dollar correspondence course in how to make ice cream.
WordNet
correspondence course

n. a course offered (by mail) by a correspondence school

Usage examples of "correspondence course".

Although Navy officials turned down the invention, they did offer him a correspondence course in cryptanalysis, which he passed.

Bep's ordered a correspondence course in shorthand for Margot, Peter and me.

Late at night he sat, pecking on his laptop, working on a correspondence course on the Internet.

She had started her correspondence course from the local junior college.

That night I settled my correspondence course books on the table and started work as usual.

I'd been plugging away at the Russian and I reckoned I was pretty good -- my pronunciation had improved vastly since Slade's arrival although that makes no difference to the examiner's marks in a correspondence course.

I am taking a correspondence course leading to associate membership of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

To protect her daughter from temptation and to maintain her own financial income from the rents of the houses in Sandicott Crescent, Mrs Sandicott had confined Jessica to her home and a correspondence course in typing.

Almendres, before war came, had completed slightly more than half of a correspondence course in radiotelephony.

He came in holding his arms like a man who'd taken a correspondence course in judo, so Parker stuck out his right hand for Blue to play games with.

My fondest ambition is to be of help in the best way I can, in my chosen career as a Technical Fertilizer Operator, and I'm almost finished with my correspondence course .

My fondest ambition is to be of help in the best way I can, in my chosen career as a Technical Fertilizer Operator and I'm almost finished with my correspondence course.