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Reimagining the curriculum process

Reimagining the curriculum process. 2019/2020 Pilot Program Sheela Pawar, UCC Chair. The CSUDH Curriculum review Process is going online!. Transparency: proposals will be tracked easily throughout the process. Record keeping: comments/changes/etc. will be recorded and accessible.

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Reimagining the curriculum process

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  1. Reimagining the curriculum process 2019/2020 Pilot Program Sheela Pawar, UCC Chair

  2. The CSUDH Curriculum review Process is going online! • Transparency: proposals will be tracked easily throughout the process. • Record keeping: comments/changes/etc. will be recorded and accessible. • Editing: in-process changes will take place in the online environment (no more worrying which version you’re working with). • Greener process: less paper willnsavetrees! Implementation of the online process is approximately 2 years from this semester.

  3. Preparation: Going online requires that we clarify our curriculum review process! Curriculum Review Revision Committee (CRRC) meetings: chaired by Kim Costino, Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Curriculum committee members from all levels, department chairs, Academic Programs staff, and other interested parties met to engage in the work of clarifying our process. Meetings took place throughout spring and summer 2019 and are continuing this fall. • Reviewed/revised the process to identify pros/cons with the current process, clarify roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, reduce redundancies. • Reviewed various curriculum review software systems. Consultation with IT is ongoing. We hope to put out a RFP soon! • Our next step is to pilot the revised process before it is fixed in an electronic process

  4. Revised processes: 1. Wider and earlier consultation. • USLOAC • Library • IT • College dean • Data czars • campus New Program Proposal process includes additional campus-wide sharing of Academic Master Plan proposal.

  5. REVISED PROCESSES: 2. USLOAC consults on learning outcomes and assessment plans. • CCCs & UCC focus on alignment of SLOs/PLOs/ILOs, making disciplinary perspectives visible and clear to students & non-experts, and working out objections • CCCs & UCC do not review action verbs and/or the assess-ability of the learning outcomes

  6. REVISED PROCESSES: 3. No syllabi go through this process (course descriptions, sample texts, and sample assignments are still reviewed). Curriculum ≠ the syllabus

  7. REVISED PROCESSES: 4. Clearer procedures for objections: intra-college disputes are addressed by CCCs; inter-college disputes are addressed by UCC. Objections must occur within Campus Wide Sharing timeframe. 5. Course proposals no longer go to UCC for approval: unless there are unresolved inter-college disputes, the course proposal process ends at the college level. 6. More transparency: responsibilities/roles at each stage are clarified and comments/objections follow each proposal through the process. During the pilot, proposals will be tracked in an online spreadsheet that will be updated regularly.

  8. We are piloting these new processes this year • Revised forms are in the making, but if you already have proposals in the pipeline you don’t have to fill out new forms. • We’re not policing syllabi: If you’ve already submitted syllabi as a part of a proposal, CCCs and UCC will only be looking at the relevant portions (Departments and accrediting bodies may still want syllabi). • We need your feedback throughout this academic year as proposers, curriculum committee members, etc. We have to resolve as many issues with our processes before we go electronic. • We will hold a campus-wide town hall meeting next month. Date and location TBA. Questions?

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