The phrase "adopt a course" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to choosing to take a particular course of action. For example: After careful consideration, the committee decided to adopt a course of action to increase efficiency in the workplace.
"Why would a young man, instead of taking up engineering, adopt a course that any reasonable person would tell him would end up in death?" Now the India-controlled section of Kashmir is engulfed in a crisis.
There, the Supreme Court held that an agency need not consider environmental effects in its NEPA review when it has "no ability" to adopt a course of action that could prevent or otherwise influence those effects.
It then presents the results of a study, conducted at a small liberal arts college, on the effectiveness of a faculty training program that was designed to encourage faculty to adopt a course management system in their classroom-based, undergraduate courses.
This allows a proper comparison to be made between the interventions, and ensures that the decision maker does not blindly adopt a course of action deemed to be 'cost-effective' by reference to the ICER alone.
As stated by Davis and Kahan, "high-level decision makers are commonly afflicted with deep uncertainties that materially affect the choice of a course of action … the solution is to adopt a course of action that is as flexible, adaptive, and robust as possible" [ 18].
To the contrary, a conscientious practitioner may responsibly adopt a course of action different from that set out in the guidelines when, in the reasonable judgment of the practitioner, such course of action is indicated by the condition of the patient, limitations of available resources or advances in knowledge or technology subsequent to publication of the guidelines.
The president could have adopted a course that would have attracted broad support domestically and from Iraqis.
Kosovo's Albanians, faced with the Belgrade government's evident willingness to use military force against them, adopted a course of passive, nonviolent resistance to Serbian control.
An article on Thursday about a Texas school district's adopting a course published by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools for studying the Bible in history and literature misstated the position of Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group.
And after shifting strategies for years, Microsoft's consumer group, which includes the MSN Web site and MSN Internet access service, is adopting a course that links it closer to the software plans of the rest of the company.
"Being in this environment over the past number of years with these financial pressures, we have adopted a course of action where we are constantly re-engineering our work force," he said.
