Curriculum



Welcome!

Welcome to the CuCurriculum Team. Each course has a Curriculum Chair that has expertise in the specific course domain! The Curriculum Team for each course is responsible for visioning and developing the curriculum.

To get started here, everybody should review  ⁠⁠Our Pedagogical Approach and Philosophy⁠ 

See related documents for your role below to see how you can help in this department.


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CuCurriculum Team
Role
Role Description
People
Related Documents
CN Curriculum Chair
 ⁠⁠Curriculum Chair Responsibilities ⁠ 
Yalda
DL Curriculum Chair
 ⁠⁠Curriculum Chair Responsibilities ⁠ 
shshaonan-wang
Climate Curriculum Chair
 ⁠⁠Curriculum Chair Responsibilities ⁠ 
None for 2025, direct all inquiries to Course Director JeJenna Pearson
Neuro AI Curriculum Chair
 ⁠⁠Curriculum Chair Responsibilities ⁠ 
PaPatrick Mineault
Curriculum Specialist
  • Produce content
  • Work closely w/ Day lead
  • Project manage — report statuses, send for and track review
  • Find and package data — for curriculum and projects
  • Make github commits
  • Define prerequisites for applications
  • Project coding review
  • Project content formatting
  • (copyright checking)
Neuro AI: SaSamuele Bolotta
HlHlib Solodzhuk
Climate: None for 2025
 ⁠⁠Day Lead Instructions⁠   New Moon⁠⁠Course Specific Day Lead & Project Lead Instructions⁠ 
Day Lead
A Day Lead is a single person responsible for a whole day of curriculum content. The Day Lead is welcome to have as many people support their efforts as they like, but ultimately they are responsible for the completion of all work.Tasks that the Day Lead must see to completion by themselves or their team:
  • Producing an outline for the day : include day-wide and tutorial specific learning objectives. Curriculum Chair might also provide these for you depending on course.
  • Creating/updating all tutorials : pre-recorded mini-lectures, written content and python coding exercises in Jupyter Notebooks. These must all adhere to our templates and be CC BY Licensed.
  • Sharing these materials via our Github repository. Help is available from our technical team.
  • Creating a small set of content-based survey questions that correspond to learning objectives.
  • Responding to and incorporating two sets of reviewer comments.
  • Depending on the course, recruiting a keynote speaker for the day and obtaining a recorded talk.
  • Optional but encouraged: During the course, join the digital conversation space during the session devoted to the Day Lead's materials at least once to respond to questions posed by students and TAs.

Depending on the course, a paid Curriculum Specialist will also support the Day Lead by helping build coding exercises and reviewing materials.
 ⁠⁠Day Lead Instructions⁠   New Moon⁠⁠Course Specific Day Lead & Project Lead Instructions⁠ 
Reviewers
  • Expertise in the domain
  • Experience with course creation, instructional design, and educational methods applicable to domain
  • Help with material review during reviews 2 and 3, and potentially 1 and the final review
  • Provide constructive feedback and suggestions on the content including the order of content, use of interactive activities, and whether it's the appropriate difficulty
 ⁠⁠Course Review ⁠ 
Content Creators


Areas of Responsibility & Overlap

Visioning the Curriculum

  • The Curriculum Chair and Course Director work together with the Domain Advisory Committee to create an overall vision for the course.

Creating Scaffolding and Connections

  • Curriculum Chair develops more specific plan including the learning objectives and focus for each day.

Developing Learning Objectives

  • Curriculum Chair develops Learning Objectives for each day


Student Prerequisites & TA Acceptance Criteria

  • Curriculum Chair works with the  Notebook⁠⁠Registrar⁠  Chair to determine student review criteria and acceptance criteria
  • See  ⁠⁠Student Selection Criteria ⁠  and  ⁠⁠Student App Review Guidelines ⁠ 
  • Curriculum Chair works with  Backpack⁠⁠Instruction⁠  Chair to define TA Acceptance Criteria
  •  ⁠⁠TA Application Review Guidelines by Course⁠ 
  • For new courses, Curriculum Chair & Course Director work together to create the  ⁠⁠Portal Application Questions⁠  for both TAs and Students


Managing Day Leads

  • The Curriculum Chair is responsible for recruiting, managing, and communicating with Day Leads
  • The Course Director and Domain Advisory Committee should also help with Day Lead suggestions and outreach
  • Curriculum Specialists also support the Day Leads during production of the course

Guidance for Day Leads - How to Build a Tutorial

  • Curriculum Chair is responsible for providing Day Leads clear guidance and expectations.
  • See  ⁠⁠Day Lead Instructions⁠ 


Curriculum Review Process

  • Curriculum Specialists work with Day Leads to coordinate the review process.
  • The Curriculum Chair works with the Course Director to provide a review of the content.
  • There is not currently a defined review process
  •  ⁠⁠What does a good and thorough review process look like? ⁠ 


Relevant Policies

  •  ⁠⁠CC-BY Copyright Requirements⁠ 
  • See all current policies:  Page with Curl⁠⁠Official Policies ⁠