HPE 565 Curriculum Development
This is a course designed to assist health professions educators to plan, develop, and evaluate a curriculum. Curriculum is derived from the word corre, meaning race, and it literally means the little race that our learners "run" to achieve our goals and objectives. From this broad perspective, curriculum integrates content with educational theory and methodology, and then evaluates its successes (and failures). This course will cover the following topics: elements of curriculum, development process, goals and objectives, educational strategies, implementation, involvement of stakeholders, course organization, and brief review of teaching methodologies (covered in instructional design course), program evaluation, and of feedback techniques. This course emphasizes the practical application of course content to health profession education settings. This course will broadly discuss planning, development and assessment of curriculum and distinguish it from syllabi, instructional methods, and teaching.