Curriculum Design Support

The Centre for Teaching and Learning provides curriculum design and mapping support to help academic units create intentional, coherent learning experiences across courses and programs.

Curriculum mapping visually demonstrates how courses within a program align with program learning outcomes, educational standards, and accreditation requirements. By clarifying what students learn, when they learn it, and how their learning is assessed, curriculum mapping can reveal opportunities to strengthen alignment, address gaps, reduce unnecessary duplication, and ensure that courses contribute intentionally to the broader goals of a program.

Who Is This Support For?

Curriculum design support is available to University of Regina faculties, departments, programs, and academic units undertaking curriculum development, review, renewal, or mapping.

Support can be tailored to the needs and stage of each program, whether you are beginning a curriculum mapping process, reviewing an established program, preparing for accreditation, or exploring opportunities for curricular renewal.

How Curriculum Mapping Can Help

A comprehensive curriculum map can help academic units:

• align courses, instructional practices, and assessments with established program learning outcomes and educational standards;
• identify gaps, unnecessary duplication, and opportunities to strengthen the progression of student learning;
• facilitate collaboration across courses, instructors, departments, and academic units through shared language and expectations;
• strengthen curricular continuity so students experience a purposeful progression of learning across courses and academic years;
• demonstrate alignment with accreditation or other external requirements; and
• make evidence-informed decisions about which elements of a curriculum should be retained, revised, strengthened, or reconsidered.

What Might the Process Look Like?

Curriculum design and mapping is a collaborative process. Depending on the goals of the academic unit, CTL support may include:

• clarifying or reviewing program learning outcomes;
• identifying the relationship between course-level and program-level learning outcomes;
• mapping where learning outcomes are introduced, developed, reinforced, and assessed across a program;
• reviewing assessment approaches across courses;
• identifying curricular gaps, overlaps, and opportunities for stronger sequencing;
• facilitating conversations among instructors and academic units about curriculum alignment; and
• helping interpret the resulting curriculum map and identify priorities for future curriculum development or renewal.

The process is designed to provide a shared picture of the curriculum—not to evaluate individual instructors or courses.

Why Curriculum Mapping?

A strong curriculum is more than a collection of individual courses. Curriculum mapping makes the relationships between those courses visible and helps academic units see the program from the student’s perspective.

The result is greater clarity, consistency, and confidence in how learning develops across a program, along with a stronger foundation for collaborative and evidence-informed curriculum decisions.