Course Description:
This course will acquaint the nurse educator
with the foundations of curriculum including development, design, goals and
objectives, implementation and evaluation. The social forces affecting curriculum
and guidelines for accreditation of nursing curricula will also be explored.
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I. Introduction
This course is intended to introduce the graduate
student to traditional and contemporary considerations for effective
curriculum planning and design as applied to nursing education.
This opportunity is made available to students to enhance their knowledge
and abilities in planning courses that prepare nurses with skills for nursing
practice and job roles. Influences of accreditation requirements as well as societal and practice
requirements will also be discussed.
This course is intended to facilitate understanding and process necessary to construction of relevant and appropriate educational curricula, whether the courses are intended for a degree program, a vocational preparatory program, or curricula for advanced practice or specialized skills training.
This course is designed to prepare the nurse educator to approach curriculum planning with a background in reflective of current practice and education literature. Course assignments are designed such that they are individually tailored within an area of focus as selected by the student, thus supporting the specific career interest of each student. The assignments in this coures will cover theory and background regarding curriculum, as well as taxonomies and design of objectives, implementation and evaluation.
This course has weekly homework assignments or activities, which will draw upon numerous and varied resources. These activities and assignments include information from readings, research, prior coursework, and personal experiences. There are several occasions throughout the course that information drawn from the student's own observation will be integrated into the learning opportunities.
There is a midterm activity paper due in week #4, and a final activity paper due in week #8. Requirements and specific details for these papers and weekly homework are given in the weekly assignment section of this syllabus, and may not be available for public view without an enrollment password issued by Canyon College.
Upon successful completion
of Week 1 assignments, the student should be able to:
Describe the role
of "relevance" in curriculum planning
Discuss the social
foundations that are likely to influence curriculum planning
Identify major contributors
to the field of curriculum development as well as their contributions
Upon successful completion
of Week 2 assignments, the student should be able to:
Describe the pertinent
aspects of stages of human development from infant through adulthood
and senescence that are of immediate importance in curriculum
design and planning
Describe contemporary
learning theories and their importance in curriculum design and
planning
Explore ways that curriculum in influenced
by political forces
Upon successful completion of Week 3 assignments the student should be
able to:
Identify applications of age-appropriate
curriculum planning through examination of examples obtained
from community or other resources
Discuss elements of curriculum design such as
horizontal and vertical integration
Identify the role of performance objectives in curriculum planning
Upon successful completion of Week 4 assignments,
the student should be able to:
Integrate the elements of learner needs, social forces, content threads
and thread continuity into curriculum design considerations
Upon successful completion of Week 5 assignments,
the student should be able to:
Discuss taxonomic levels of learning objectives
Describe elements of appropriate educational objectives concerning
theory and skill based learning
Evaluate barriers that may exist regarding
suggested improvements or enhancements to curriculum plan or
implementation
Discuss potential solutions to identified
barriers
Upon successful completion of Week 6 assignments,
the student should be able to:
Describe components of curriculum implementation, including
academic approvals, accreditations and workforce need
Critique the curriculum process
regarding considerations of human development, learning style,
literacy, cultural competence, and relevance in the process of
curriculum design
Upon successful completion of Week 7 assignments,
the student should be able to:
Demonstrate applications of curriculum evaluation and
program effectiveness
Upon successful completion of Week 8 assignments,
the student should be able to:
Complete a plan for curriculum design for
a selected population, setting, and topic integrating the principles
of curriculum design
Since this course is offered over the Internet, which
allows students to participate at "any time, any where,"
it is important to plan your time carefully. Students are expected
to pace themselves to access assignments, prepare their work
and necessary research, and submit assignments to the instructor
by the established due dates. Students are expected to make use
of local resources as well as required readings.
Course Week and Due Dates.
Generally, Monday is the first of the course week,
and Sunday is the last day of the course week. Assignments scheduled
for completion during a class week should be sent to the instructor
via email or fax by end of the day Sunday, determined by your
own time zone. If a student is sending assignments through the
postal service, please make prior arrangements with instructor,
as there is no postal delivery on Sunday. Given that this is
a graduate level course, and that some community contact and
independent research is necessary to fulfill assignments, some
flexibility regarding due dates may be granted by mutual agreement
between student and instructor.
Submitting
Assignments - Instructions:
Students may submit work
in MSWord (any version) or Excel (any version) or HTML and send
as an email note or file attachment. If you use another word
processing program (such as Works), please save as an .rtf
file.
Formats for files received
other than those specified here that your instructor cannot open
using MSWord or a Word converter program for PC or Macintosh
will be returned to you for reprocessing, and will be considered
late. Any questions on formatting of your file attachment documents,
please Email your instructor with any questions now and we can
find a format that will work for your particular needs. Thanks
in advance on this matter.
Please include name, reply
address, title of assignment, title of course, and date submitted
on the document itself, in addition to the email text. Please
indicate "CH 535" in the subject line of your email.
Late Assignment Penalties:
Weekly assignments must be received by the instructor
not later than Sunday midnight (your time zone) of the week assigned.
Students who anticipate that their schedule may cause assignments
to be out of compliance are advised to contact instructor at
least one week in advance, as an extension may be permitted with
prior mutual agreement. Instructor discretion regarding point
penalties for any late work will be considered final.
Absentee Policy:
While
this course is designed to be completed through independent study,
"attendance" is recorded through assignment submissions
in a timely manner to the instructor's email address (or via
post or fax). However, please note that any student who has not
participated (completed assignments) for 14 consecutive days
without prior discussion with the instructor regarding such absence
shall be recommended for administrative withdrawal. The school
shall make recommendations to the instructor as to what action
will be taken.
Academic Honesty:
Canyon
College policies are in effect. All work must be your own. Presenting
as one's own the words, ideas, or expression of another in any
form is cheating through plagiarism, and will not be tolerated.
Assignments will be graded based on completeness,
correctness and timeliness of submissions. There is a total of
100 points possible.
Homework:
Weekly assignments may have more than one component,
and the point value for each component is worth 5, 10, or 15
points as shown on the assignment detail.
Midterm and Final Weeks:
The Midterm grade is determined by aggregate point
performance of work submitted for assignments designated in weeks
1-4.
The Final point allocation is determined
through aggregate points submitted for all weeks of the course.
Final Letter Grade:
Letter grades will be assigned at the conclusion of
the eight weeks based on cumulative points achieved over the
entirety of the eight week course. The grading scale based on
100 possible points is as follows:
