correspondence course

Example Sentences

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After taking a correspondence course in bookkeeping and accounting, she took over the books for the family enterprise.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023

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

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

“You’ve already used her as a guinea pig for that correspondence course you took. Why not let her alone. Let Gonzalez retire her.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole