The phrase "a course was set" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the establishment of a direction or plan, often in a nautical or metaphorical context.
Example: "After much deliberation, a course was set for the expedition to ensure a successful journey."
Alternatives: "a path was determined" or "a direction was established."
Her writing career started slowly, with a few short stories published in the low-paying science-fiction magazines of the time, but once she had been recognised for her Pern stories, a course was set.
Writing in an agency history, Robert R. Gilruth, a top NASA official who spent many months trying to persuade Mr. Holmes to approve the lunar-orbit rendezvous, said the moon project's success owed much to Mr. Holmes's management-team approach, in which NASA officials "argued out our different opinions" before a course was set.
A course was set to allow the Superfund Basic Research Program to award grants annually and to diversify funding mechanisms.
Once a course is set, it becomes the path of least resistance.
The chancellor's caution, which her critics contend has hindered fast progress in easing or ending the euro crisis, stems from this approach, in which a course is set only once she considers it certain to succeed.
A collision course was set.
Kelly, who improved his score by a dozen strokes with a 74, said the course was set up a little easier than in 2003.
To offset the anticipated competition, a literary and scientific course was set up, in addition to the arts course, which merited a certificate upon completion.
After she discovered the blues as a teenager, her life's course was set, despite the inevitable oppositions she faced.
The country's course was set by a fateful meeting at the White House last March; a resurrected, unreformed, and still crazy system - symbolized by 13 bankers - is in the driving seat now.
He was merely continuing the tradition established by his father, who said his course was set by a Baptist preacher who encouraged him to make as much money as he could, and then give away as much as he could.
