The phrase "alters its course" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a change in direction or approach, often in a metaphorical sense, such as in discussions about plans, strategies, or narratives.
Example: "The river alters its course after heavy rainfall, creating new paths through the landscape."
Alternatives: "changes its direction" or "modifies its path".
But the gravity of the Sun alters its course, causing it to travel around the Sun, in a shape very near to a circle.
Enterprise alters its course to assist, and arrives to find Captain Shran, Lieutenant Talas, and 17 other survivors in escape-pods.
Coming close to catching the Peary, the Aurora receives an indistinct distress call from another ship and alters its course to help.
Modern Turkey reportedly funds a massive genocide denial campaign, claiming that the death marches were merely "relocations" required by military necessity and that the massacres (the Euphrates was so packed with bodies that it altered its course) were the work of a few "unruly' officials.
But in doing so, it has altered its course in ways that may mute Edison's future role in the national debate over educational reform.
"Ees Betty there?" he would enquire, and Solly would feel not that her life had changed exactly but that it had altered its course.
History can certainly alter its course, and it will be up to Baffert and Espinoza to give War Emblem every chance to do so.
Nasa is planning to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed to see if it can alter its course.
The procedure was one of four tested by the students over the six-week internship and the most effective, it turned out, at mimicking natural signals sent to the roach's brain, forcing it to alter its course and move in their desired direction.
While likely a disappointment to early investors who were hoping to get a differentiated fitness tracker, we believe in light of market trends, the company made a wise decision to alter its course, putting it in better position to address the more challenging issues of chronic disease management.
Nevertheless, although treatment may slow the progress of the disease, it does not alter its course.
