16.7 Curriculum Development or equivalent. Second semester. Twelve 3-hour lecture/seminars. On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• understand and contribute to curriculum and planning development; and
• understand a range of curriculum issues which go beyond or transcend their own subject specialities.

Social trends in relation to work, leisure, interpersonal relationships and appropriate curricula responses; decision-making processes in curriculum; curriculum innovations. An assignment of 1,500 words (30 per cent); a project involving some form of relevant curriculum innovation (70 per cent).