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The phrase 'optional course' is correct and may be used in written English.
You would use this phrase when referring to a course that someone has the choice of taking, depending on their own preferences. For example, "In addition to the required courses, our school offers several optional courses, such as photography or Spanish."
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Books and Software Required and optional course materials.
To this end, I designed an optional course contest.
Until now, an optional course on Roman Catholicism was offered during school hours but was not graded.
In order to address this call, an optional course was designed and taught in one Estonian gymnasium for 11th grade students (N=62).
Four learning modules developed by different partners within the framework of the EU FP7 project ESTABLISH were adapted and taught within the optional course.
As part of an optional course, the school takes students to the Bergplaas farm in South Africa, where they spend a week learning about sustainable business.
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Optional Courses for the MinorThree elective courses.
Optional Courses for the MinorThree elective courses, which may include one film production course.
In my experience, influential black writers were mostly relegated to optional courses at the end of the honours degree.
Optional courses may be taken in addition to the required courses, not instead of them.
Typically it's textbooks for required courses that are most expensive, while textbooks for "elective" (optional) courses are more reasonably priced.
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