The word 'modules' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a distinct, self-contained component, as shown in the example sentence below: This software package includes dozens of highly specialized modules to help you customize its functionality.
But some convenors fight tooth and nail to prevent graduate teaching on their modules, believing us to be a lower class of teacher, possibly with some justification.
Or, worse, you'll just hit on a lecturer when drunk on free departmental wine, be rejected, and have to spend the next three years studiously avoiding them, and never ever taking any of their modules.
Solar PV modules have dropped in price by about 80% since 2008, while LED lights are 85% cheaper than five years ago.
We can offer a compact three-hour course, a one-day seminar, a week-long bootcamp or a mixture of modules.
I took mainly management modules, to give me the widest job opportunities, and I had a year in Paris as an English language teaching assistant.
Each partner is responsible for the research, design and production of its modules.
It already has an agreement with NASA to expand the International Space Station in 2015 using its flexible modules, and also to devise a plan for a privately developed, NASA financed, lunar base architecture.The firm's chief executive Robert Bigelow, a billionaire hotel owner, wants to establish private property rights on the Moon in a bid to tackle Chinese lunar dominance.
One of Regin's modules is called "LEGSPIN", a cricketing term.
(There are hints that Regin might be British not least that one of its modules seems to be called "LEGSPIN", a cricketing term. British spooks refuse to comment).
Corporations increasingly break apart their activities into smaller discrete modules and out-source or offshore them.
GM caused anxiety among its unionised workforce a few years ago when it talked publicly about its Project Yellowstone, to adapt production by assembling cars from pre-prepared modules made by outside parts suppliers.Changes to manufacturing methods could also arise from new technology being incorporated in cars, particularly as less polluting alternatives to petrol and diesel engines come along.
