The phrase "a survey class" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a course that provides a broad overview of a particular subject or field of study.
Example: "This semester, I am taking a survey class on American literature, which covers major authors and movements."
Alternatives: "an introductory course" or "a general studies class".
Note that the widely cited Berkeley "Intro to Programming" class with more than 50percentt women is a terminal survey class (CS10) that does not count toward a CS degree nor prepare students to work as developers on its own.
Most programs have no security requirements, or if it is taught, it is usually included as part of a systems survey class.
The council calls its course a nonsectarian historical and literary survey class, but a growing number of critics say the course conceals a religious agenda.
Seventy-two percent of graduates who took paid internships got job offers, according to a survey of class of 2015 graduates released this year by the National Association of Colleges and Employers that was recirculated Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute.
We obtained data from the 2003 Children's Lifestyle and School-performance Study (CLASS), a survey of grade five students, who are primarily 10 or 11 years old, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada [ 25, 26].
Students in all the courses completed the same AS, the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS).
We used the Colorado Learning Attitudes toward Science Survey (CLASS) to measure the course's effect on attitudes (Adams et al., 2006).
The original Weeksville was discovered when a community-survey class at the nearby Pratt Institute studied old maps and directories of New York, and noticed the existence of a black colony.
We used a validated attitudinal survey, CLASS-Bio, to capture the change in student views of biology across a 4-yr period.
