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Curriculum Development & Design Department

The Curriculum Development & Design Department trains curriculum specialists capable of designing geoscience and energy-engineering education programs from the ground up. Students learn industry skills-gap analysis techniques, methods for building competency-based and outcome-based (OBE) frameworks, and the principles of designing modular, evidence-based courses that satisfy accreditation requirements, applying these skills through real curriculum-development projects. Graduates leave able to take direct ownership of planning, designing, and revising curricula for institutions or companies as workforce demands shift.

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Field-based Curriculum · 19

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Curriculum Theory & Foundations
Curriculum Theory & Foundations
A theory course asking what a curriculum is, what it is for, and on what authori…
Franklin Bobbitt
Curriculum Development Model & Mapping
Curriculum Development Model & Mapping
Centred on the Tyler rationale and Taba's model, students learn and perform curr…
Hilda Taba
Competency-Based Curriculum
Competency-Based Curriculum
Students learn to restructure curricula around explicitly defined competencies r…
David McClelland
Outcome-Based Education & Mastery Learning
Outcome-Based Education & Mastery Learning
Students learn outcome-based education — designing backward from exit outcomes —…
John B. Carroll
Instructional Systems Design
Instructional Systems Design
Centred on ADDIE and Gagné's nine events, students learn and perform instruction…
Robert M. Gagné
Problem-Based Learning
Problem-Based Learning
Students learn problem-based learning's seven-step tutorial — meeting the proble…
Howard Barrows
Project-Based & Design-Based Learning
Project-Based & Design-Based Learning
From Kilpatrick's project method to modern exhibitions and capstones, students l…
William Heard Kilpatrick
Case-Based Learning
Case-Based Learning
From the Harvard Law prototype, students learn and run case-based learning — dec…
Christopher Columbus Langdell
Experiential & Field-Based Learning
Experiential & Field-Based Learning
Grounded in Dewey's theory of experience and Kolb's cycle, students design field…
Kurt Hahn
Work-Integrated Learning & Cooperative Education
Work-Integrated Learning & Cooperative Education
From Schneider's 1906 cooperative education, students learn work-integrated lear…
Herman Schneider
Industry Skills-Gap Analysis & Needs Assessment
Industry Skills-Gap Analysis & Needs Assessment
Students learn and perform the analytic ladder of needs assessment — performance…
Robert F. Mager
STEM/Engineering Education Reform
STEM/Engineering Education Reform
Students analyse historically the structural reform of STEM and engineering educ…
Hyman G. Rickover
Engineering & Geoscience Education Accreditation
Engineering & Geoscience Education Accreditation
Students learn outcomes-based accreditation in the ABET and Washington Accord li…
Charles Riborg Mann
Modular Course Structure & Learning Pathways
Modular Course Structure & Learning Pathways
Students design modular curricula — independently assessed modules with prerequi…
Fred S. Keller
Stackable Credentials & Andragogy
Stackable Credentials & Andragogy
On Knowles's model of adult learning, students learn the stacking structure of m…
Malcolm Knowles
Global & Critical/Culturally Responsive Curriculum
Global & Critical/Culturally Responsive Curriculum
Starting from Freire's critical pedagogy that treats curriculum as cultural and …
Paulo Freire
Vocational & Technical Curriculum
Vocational & Technical Curriculum
In the Prosser theorems and Smith-Hughes tradition, students learn TVET curricul…
Charles A. Prosser
Universal Design for Learning (Curriculum Accessibility)
Universal Design for Learning (Curriculum Accessibility)
Students learn and apply the Universal Design for Learning guidelines, embedding…
Ronald L. Mace
Simulation-Based Curriculum & Serious Games
Simulation-Based Curriculum & Serious Games
From the Kriegsspiel onward, students learn the design of simulation-based learn…
Georg von Reisswitz