Curriculum Design

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically analyse and reflect on the influences and issues associated with curriculum design and development.
• Compare and contrast the influence of curriculum conceptions and development models on curriculum design.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a curriculum through its conceptions, implementation, management and assessment.
• Organise and articulate a reasoned line of argument in writing.

Topics normally covered in this module include:

• The nature of the curriculum;
• Curriculum design and curriculum theory;
• Curriculum conceptions;
• Models of and for curriculum design;
• The nature of knowledge;
• Curriculum content selection, delivery and assessment;
• Implementing and maintaining the curriculum;
• Ways of assessing curriculum;
• Insights into curriculum design in a globalised context.

This module is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops that are designed to enhance your learning in an interactive manner. You will participate in discussions, workshop activities and small group work.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.