Preparing Academic Programs Materials
Targeted group: Faculty members of higher education institutions. Date: 29\2\1438 AH Location: the College Auditorium Objectives: - Providing the required knowledge and skills for planning comprehensive academic programs. - providing tips on preparing academic plans and educational curriculum or updating the current plans and curriculum. - explaining the importance of establishing new departments or academic programs and improving the current ones by specialized persons; hence this step enhances the quality of educational outcomes. The program included the following topics: 1- the requirements of preparing academic plans. 2- the formation of a committee for academic planing. 3- the specializations and qualifications of the academic planing committee. 4- the formation of academic planning committee. 5- The framework of an academic plan. 6- The key components of an academic plan. 7- the steps of preparing an academic plan. 8- the regulations of preparing an academic plan and determining the covered chapters. 9- The components of an academic plan. 10- The requirements of the university and college. 11- the compulsory requirements of departments. 12- the optional requirements of departments. 13- the elective courses. 14- the previous required courses. 15- the conflicted required courses. 16- the main required course. 17- The basic principles of preparing and improving the academic plans and programs. 18- The criteria of preparing the academic programs. 19- the criteria of preparing the academic plans. 20- the criteria of reviewing an academic program. 21- the phases of establishing a new academic plan. 22- the mechanism of approving a new academic program or plan or an updated current program or plan. 23- the mechanism of approving the new academic plan or a current updated plan. 24- the elements of documenting a plan. 25- the determination of the academic reference. 26- the references of an academic plan. 27- the committees and councils supervising on preparing an academic plan. 28- encoding the courses. 29- the components of an academic plan for a course and the procedures of putting a plan. 30- Improving programs. 31- improving curriculum to an academic credit system. 32- the procedures of accreditation. 33- the digital support. 34- the phases of assessing an academic plan and the reference indicators of a program. 35- the administrative steps and procedures. 36- the attached materials to a plan and the required documents, templates and attachments to approve an academic plan: 1- the program guide. 2- the program report. 3- a template of the requirements to approve an academic plan or program. 4- a template of the academic program description. 5- a template of distributing the credited hours in an academic plan. 6- a template of a summary course description . 7- a template of a course description . 8- the guide plan of distributing the courses over the academic levels 9- an attachment on how to fill a course description template. 10- the scanning mechanism of the identical academic programs. 11- the elective programs as references for planning the current academic program. 12- a template of the operational plan. 13- a template of an external arbitration. 14- a template of applying for establishing a new department of college. 15- a template of applying for establishing a new academic program. 16- a template of a map showing the compatibility of the course and learning outcomes. 17- a template of an opinion form to the beneficiary sector of the university programs.