C2010: Ensuring sustainable and excellent courses at Curtin by 2010
What's new?
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Recently, Curtin announced its adoption of the triple-i curriculum. This means that, in addition to student achievement of Curtin’s nine graduate attributes, there are three main aspects of the curriculum which we wish to emphasise:
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Industry (graduate employability) |
achievement of all Curtin’s graduate attributes, ensuring assessments throughout the course provide students with comprehensive and coordinated opportunities for work-integrated and career development learning, scenario-based problem-solving, and critical reflection on real or simulated work-based experiences related to their course and aspirations |
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Indigenous Intercultural International (global citizenship) |
achievement of Curtin’s graduate attributes 7 (international perspective) and 8 (intercultural understanding) ensuring assessments throughout the course provide students with opportunities to demonstrate Indigenous cultural competence and consider issues from a global perspective, and respect and value diversity and social justice |
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Interdisciplinary (rich educational choices) |
providing students with rich educational choices beyond the narrow confines of a single discipline, including opportunities such as achieving interdisciplinary majors, working in cross-disciplinary or interprofessional teams to solve complex problems, and completing elective units or modules |
The C2010 Project focuses on implementing the course-related objectives of the 
Teaching and Learning Enabling Plan (TLEP).
In brief, when Curtin commences the 2010 academic year, we aim to have achieved the following:
- revised the Curtin award (that is, we will have revisited and confirmed the educational emphases of a Curtin award, and its shape, structure and standards)
- determined which of our existing courses are sustainable in terms of strategic focus, quality and financial viability: some courses will be discontinued; some will be restructured and streamlined;
- initiated Comprehensive Course Review process: all our courses will have course learning outcomes which will be achieved developmentally by students in sustainable, coherent units which have:
- unit learning outcomes clearly linked to assessment tasks;
- timely feedback focused on the achievement of the learning outcomes;
- engaging learning experiences (face-to-face, online or both);
- a web presence and readily accessible learning resources; and
- continuous improvement informed by eVALUate and other feedback processes;
- implemented the Annual Course Review process;
- implemented tools and processes to ensure the currency of course data.
