科目 (kē mù): subject, course

In high school, my favorite subject was physics, because the teacher could always use simple experiments to explain complex principles.

The university entrance exam includes three main subjects: Chinese, math, and a foreign language, plus two elective subjects.

This semester I chose four subjects, and accounting is the hardest, requiring a lot of time to do practice problems.

In order to pass the exam, he reviews different subjects every day: in the morning he memorizes history, and in the afternoon he does math problems.

In medical school, anatomy is a basic subject; students must master the structure of the human body before they can study clinical courses.