Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1904, from Late Latin practicum, neuter of practicus (see practical). Compare German praktikum.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A college course designed to give a student supervised practical knowledge of a subject previously studied theoretically. 2 (context US English) A science exam in which students are questioned about specimens or other objects placed in front of them.
Wikipedia
A practicum (also called work placement, especially in the UK) is a graduate level course, often in a specialized field of study, that is designed to give students supervised practical application of a previously or concurrently studied theory. Practicums ( student teaching) are common for education and social work majors. In some cases, the practicum may be a part-time student teaching placement that occurs the semester before a student's full-time student teaching placement.
The process resembles an internship; however, the latter is often not part of the school program.
A practicum is involved in optional parts of schooling. Practicum is widely practiced in Asia, especially. In Pakistan it is truly mandatory and to practice it is quite necessary.
Usage examples of "practicum".
She had been practically hysterical when she got her practicum changed from fifteenth to fourteenth century England, and how did either century qualify as a practicum?
Thanks to the good man, I was about as unprepared for my practicum as it was possible for him to make me.
And Kivrin, who had already done her practicum and should have been bursting with advice, walked around as silent as a saint until I begged her to help me.
I told myself and tried to relax, but that was impossible with the prospect of the practicum looming up before me.
I must also accomplish the purpose of this practicum, whatever it may be.
Which sounds to me like a course description for History Practicum 401.
I have fought with memory my whole practicum only to find that it is not the enemy at all, and being an historian is not some saintly burden afser all.
When Roz started her practicum in Fabrication, she began to spend more time with Eva.
Kivrin had hated the unwieldy mass of hair and the endless time it took to wash, had worried about how mediaeval women wore their hair, whether they braided it or not, and wondered how on earth she was going to get through the sixteen days of her practicum without washing it.
Peter Marchmont and his graduate practicum in chemical engineering should have received the world patent for the decoupling hydrothermoelectric generator.
A man right off the cable train from Tsander was doing a practicum in the lab.
There were databases accessible only through the biotech labs, but he would have to return to his practicum to view them, and that would mean he would have to explain his absence.
Background of Mathematics IIBBStATISTICS and Orientation to Psychological Testingbbanda Practicum in Teaching Reading to the Mentally Retarded.
It was harder than ever to sit through Current Methods of Teaching Mentally Retarded Adolescents and Practicum in Teaching Readingto the Mentally Retarded.
Math lessons can spill over into English, a practicum such as filling out an income tax form or balancing a checkbook can be worked into government classes, and economics can be made to include family planning.