The sentence 'repeat the course' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that someone should take a course again, either because they have failed it or for other reasons. For example, "Since Marie did not pass the course the first time, her teacher recommended that she repeat the course."
The principals were feuding, and their attention to children was so erratic that some of them had taken and passed freshman English only to be forced to repeat the course as sophomores.
Never mind that she cut enough art classes to get an F and must repeat the course this summer under the tutelage of a riotously solicitous video and performance artist named Roberta (Ms. Douglas).
Seventeen others in the class had not even qualified to take the test; they will have to repeat the course until they qualify or they give up, as history shows many have done.
Dr. Moore said that he hoped U.T.-Arlington's pass rate for algebra would eventually increase to 75 percent, and added that he believed savings would come from students not having to repeat the course.
And participants who receive a C are encouraged to repeat the course.
Teens work at their own pace and can repeat the course as often as necessary.
BWF and HHMI repeated the course in 2005, adding a "train the trainers" component to help other organizations offer such training to their scientists.
Future iterations should consider alternate ways to develop local trainers, either by repeating the course multiple times, providing additional clinical supervision and accompaniment before or after the course, and/or pairing the certificate program with residency training, so that local residency-trained EPs could ultimately run the certificate course.
This increase is probably due to 1) a change in enrollment from 350 to 700, and 2) a change in departmental policy that loosened restrictions on repeating the course.
Institutional data on the number of repeats are not available; however, the change in grade distribution implies that fewer students are repeating the course as the students who traditionally repeat the class would have earned a D or F or withdrawn from the class.
On top of that, students can get state funding to repeat the same course up to two more times to improve a bad grade.
