The phrase "a preferred course" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing options or choices that are favored or recommended in a particular context.
Example: "After reviewing all the available options, we have determined that taking a preferred course will yield the best results for our project."
Alternatives: "a favored option" or "a recommended path".
"But when one talks about doctrines and so on, it implies that it's a preferred course".
In interviews, administration officials have signaled that a preferred course might have been to have directed that the dams be breached.
Integrated water-resource management (IWRM) is a preferred course of action in dealing with the complex and difficult problems of all the varieties of water management in Afghanistan.
The model was developed to support managers in exploring the strengths and weaknesses of each alternative, to assist the setting of priorities between conflicting criteria, to study the sensitivity of the behavior of alternatives to changes in underlying decision situations, and finally to identify a preferred course of action.
These included effective and well-coordinated dissemination of evidence, stakeholders reaching a consensus on the available evidence, the MoH having the negotiating power to take a preferred course of action in line with evidence and, reducing the turnover of senior officers to ensure continuity.
Everyone has a preferred line.
Spencer Abraham, a former senator from Michigan, wrote that Romney's preferred course, a "managed bankruptcy," would doom the automakers.
The favourites are getting heavy in League Two, presenting us with a weekend when the preferred course of action is to dabble on a couple of speculative long shots in the absence of a single solid wager.
When a bank fails, the preferred course of action by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is to sell it, quickly, to a healthy bank.
Note if one of your preferred course has a prerequisite, which is a lower-level class that you are required to pass before you can move on to another.
The attorney general indicated that a court hearing was his preferred course of action to resolve the dispute and the university accepts this view.
