A crash course is an intensive or short-term learning experience, often used in emergency situations. It can also refer to brief introductions to a topic, which can be found for free online. Intensive courses can be taken voluntarily, but emergency situations can cause stress and require immediate learning.
The term crash course refers to intensive or short-term learning, which can be followed in emergency situations. Often, however, the term is simply applied to a brief introduction to the material that will allow for a deeper understanding of the material.
If you look on the Internet, you will see a “crash course” applied to virtually anything you can learn. Usually these courses are free. For example, you can find introductory courses on HTML, French history, constitutional law or guitar chords.
Such short introductions are usually intended to provide a quick understanding of a topic. In particular, if someone wants to do something right away, like trying to code a website, a crash course in HTML or Java can provide enough information to get started.
Conversely, the real crash course is not usually sought. Often it is learning that occurs in an emergency situation, forcing a “learning by doing” scenario. For example, if a woman cannot get to the hospital to have a baby, her husband may be in an emergency situation where he has to deliver the baby himself. With the help of a 911 operator, the husband may suddenly find himself taking an intensive course in obstetrics.
In the above situation, the husband undergoes a crash course which is definitely not of his research. He has to learn how to deliver a baby, right now! Thus his acquired learning occurs quickly and in an emergency situation.
Also, driving schools like to use crash course to describe driving lessons. They can often be called “Crash Course” driving schools because the goal is to teach a driver to learn quickly through intensive lessons. In relation to the term, the aim is also to teach the driver not to “crash”. Some schools even offer training on what to do in the event of an accident or loss of consciousness.
Generally, however, intensive courses can be taken in almost any field. Voluntary participation in intense studies does not have the negative implications of such courses taken in emergency situations. While both provide learning experiences, the latter is clearly more stressful.
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