How to Use practicum in a Sentence

practicum

noun
  • There was even a pizza practicum as part of our bread-making week.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Bon Appetit, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Midway through the first year, students select practicum sites for their final year.
    — Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the program is online, culminating in one four-hour in-person practicum.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • This may necessitate unlearning things from school in order to dive into more of a hands-on practicum.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The district pays for the majority of the tuition cost and their summertime practicum hours.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 July 2025
  • Many work full-time, raise families, and complete demanding practicum hours in agencies that cannot afford to pay them.
    — David Kilmnick, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • For the graduate students, the clinic is a practicum that comes near to the end of their time in the McDaniel program.
    — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 July 2019
  • These skills are also central to our practicum courses in which students complete deliverables for real clients.
    — Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
  • Very intelligent and well-versed, whereas the other guys on Jocelyn’s team are sort of into the practicum of it.
    — Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • The victim, a student at a Birmingham area college, was doing a practicum at the hospital.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The short-term study abroad programs were developed as an alternative to the department’s practicum courses.
    — Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Students in the pilot program at Lanier are expected to take advanced culinary next year and a culinary practicum their senior year.
    — Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2017
  • This confidence is not unfounded, as it is backed by the rigorous practicum that pilots, flight crew, ground crew, and mechanics undergo.
    — Essence, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Early childhood degree and certificate students will be able to participate in an internship and practicum site.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Wright said concerns about pieces of the national exam’s practicum exam led the Oklahoma board to modify requirements.
    — Emma Murphy, Oklahoma Voice, 23 June 2026
  • The required curriculum and practicum hours not only prepare the graduates to serve preschool through 12th-grade students, but their families, as well.
    — Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The fourth course focuses on dog training and is similar to a practicum, where students will apply actual skills training on dogs, either their own pets or dogs that belong to friends or family.
    — Jenelyn Russo, Orange County Register, 30 July 2024
  • While most classes in these programs run online, practicums, internships and clinical requirements may require in-person attendance.
    — Doug Wintemute, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Students taking part in practicum experiences in various fields in community colleges must be vaccinated for measles.
    — OregonLive.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Supporting women leaders to engage and actively participate in practicums can pay dividends.
    — Naba, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Eight weeks into a semester, something unexpected happened in my business analytics practicum.
    — Shannon McKeen, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Business and industry pathway in the culinary arts includes principles of hospitality services, culinary arts, advanced culinary arts, and practicum in culinary arts.
    — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Preparing the curriclum In their senior years, HCC nursing students have to complete a practicum experience.
    — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Bel Air, which has had a sister city exchange agreement with Narva since 2014, was instrumental in setting up the trip, which served as the student nurses final practicum.
    — Allan Vought, The Aegis, 19 Jan. 2018
  • What’s more, nursing programs often have difficulty finding sufficient faculty and are dependent on hospitals for clinical slots as part of students’ hands-on practicum requirement.
    — Michael B. Horn, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Assign public health graduate students who need practicum experience to rural communities to do contact tracing, data entry, and provide staff support for small county health departments.
    — Dr. Jennifer Olsen, Time, 23 Apr. 2020
  • For students to participate in the EMT class, they are required to attend an informational meeting in January and enroll in the school's health practicum course.
    — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The transformative two-week clinical practicum, providing speech and language services at a variety of sites, is offered annually to first-year graduate students as part of the speech-language pathology program.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Tussey, who already has a bachelors and a masters degree in engineering, travels to Clarkdale, a town tucked between Jerome and Cottonwood, for classes and practicum work in the vineyard and winery.
    — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 19 Nov. 2019
  • In late 2020, Richard began a practicum involving a social media marketing research project for Facebook, alongside a cohort of largely diverse students from around the country.
    — Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021

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