ORA-00928: missing SELECT keyword

In MYTABLE there are courses and their predecessor courses. What I am trying to is to find the courses to be taken after the specified course. I am getting missing SELECT keyword error. Why I am getting this error although I have SELECT statement in FOR statement ? Where am I doing wrong ?

DECLARE
  coursename varchar2(200) := 'COURSE_101';
  str        varchar2(200);
BEGIN
  WITH DATA AS
    (select (select course_name 
             from MYTABLE 
             WHERE predecessors like ('''%' || coursename||'%''') 
            ) str
     from dual
    )
    FOR cursor1 IN (SELECT str FROM DATA) 
    LOOP
      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(cursor1);
    END LOOP;
end;

Solution

Unless I'm wrong, WITH factoring clause can't be used that way; you'll have to use it as an inline view, such as this:

declare
  coursename varchar2(200) := 'COURSE_101';
  str        varchar2(200);
begin
  for cursor1 in (select str 
                  from (select (select course_name 
                                from mytable 
                                where predecessors like '''%' || coursename||'%'''
                               )  str
                        from dual
                       )
                 ) 
  loop
    dbms_output.put_line(cursor1.str);
  end loop;
end;
/

Apart from the fact that it doesn't work (wrong LIKE condition), you OVERcomplicated it. This is how it, actually, does something:

SQL> create table mytable(course_name  varchar2(20),
  2                       predecessors varchar2(20));

Table created.

SQL> insert into mytable values ('COURSE_101', 'COURSE_101');

1 row created.

SQL>
SQL> declare
  2    coursename varchar2(20) := 'COURSE_101';
  3  begin
  4    for cursor1 in (select course_name str
  5                    from mytable
  6                    where predecessors like '%' || coursename || '%'
  7                   )
  8    loop
  9      dbms_output.put_line(cursor1.str);
 10    end loop;
 11  end;
 12  /
COURSE_101

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>

Also, is that WHERE clause correct? PREDECESSORS LIKE COURSENAME? I'm not saying that it is wrong, just looks somewhat strange.