Course Design

English Department
Widya Kartika University – Surabaya
March 16, 2021

By Maria Tirtaningrum, SS, MPd

 Start to Plan your Course Design
1.A system approach to course design
2.What is “Planning”?
3.Finding the meaning of “Good
Course”
4.What should be concerned in Course
Design?
5.Who are the students?
Relationship of Textbook, Syllabus, Course and
Curriculum

Curriculum
Course

Syllabus

Textbook
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A System
Approach to
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Course Design 05

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Let's Get Started

 What is Course Design?

A system in the sense that planning for

one component will contribute the
others; change to one component will
influence all the others
A System Approach to Course Design
Where to begin???
How to understand the situation?

The teacher’s Role:

- Examines, frames and attempts to solve the dilemmas of classroom
practice  to address the challenges of course design
- Is aware of and questions the assumptions and values he/she brings to
teaching
- Is attentive to instructional and cultural contents in which he/she teaches
- Takes part curriculum development and is involved in school change
efforts
- Takes responsibility for his/her own professional development
A System Approach to Course Design
Pedagogical Reasoning:
Thinking thought how to transform subject matter
knowledge into something that can be taught and
learned (content knowledge)

Understand that…..

Teaching is an organic, unpredictable, challenging,

satisfying and frustrating process
There is no hierarchy in the processes and no sequence in
their accomplishment
There is no hierarchy in the processes and no
sequence in their accomplishment
Components of Designing language course:
1. Objectives and Goals
2. Assessment: Students  Teachers (about student’s
learning)
3. Determining content
4. Materials
5. Method
6. Evaluation: Teachers  Students (about student’s
learning)
 Components of Needs Assessment
Who are the students?
What are my students’ need?
How can I assess then so that I can address them?

NEED ASSESSMENT TOOL = LEARNING ASSESSMENT TOOL

RIGHT WAY = RIGHT RESULTS???

 WHO ARE THE STUDENTS?
FROM INSIDE OR OUTSIDE FROM DIFFERENT
of the Institution INSTITUTION
- Whether the course is described or • The nature of institution
advertised anywhere • Its aims for the students
- Whether any report available (past • What demands are made by the
courses) institution on the students (before,
- Who is paying for the students to during, after)
attend and whether attendance is • Whether the students are tested
voluntary or compulsory
before
- How the students are selected
• The stakeholder involvement
- The length and frequency of the course,
the mode of contact and the prescribed
syllabus and materials
- The decisions for who teaches the
certain subject whether from yourself
or others and the reasons of the
decisions
Writing Task
Writing the Description of the Course:
1. The course description should be no longer
than 100 words.
2. Write from a student-centered perspective.
3. Use present tense and active voice.
4. Use clear and simple sentence structure and
language.
5. Use gender neutral language.

Writing The Big Purpose of the Course/ the General

Objective of the Course:
- Start to think the outcome on the students
- For the beginners, start with the first step:
Remembering
- For example:

At the end of the course, the students are expected

to be able to…..