Inventories:     

Inventories of various documents and activities may provide you with some insights into what is actually happening within your program.  You can inventory, for example:

• Course objectives in relation to program objectives;
• Assignments across courses;
• Assignments within courses with multiple sections;
• Institutional data.

One of the most valuable tools for guiding your curriculum development and assessment processes is the course objective inventory.

To conduct such an inventory:

1. Determine, if you have not already done so, what the learning goals for your program are;
2. Develop a spreadsheet with those program learning goals in the left hand column;
3. List all your courses across the top row;
4. Note the learning objectives for each course – these will probably be more specific than the program learning goals (See “From Program Goals and Objectives to Course Objectives or Learning Outcomes” in the Policies and Guidelines section);
5. Place an X or a check in any box where the program goals and course learning objectives coincide;
6. Review the resulting spread of objectives to determine whether there might be unnecessary overlap or gaps in what is covered that you did not know about;
7. Determine whether any course needs to be revised to address the overlaps or gaps that you have detected through the inventory.

Example: 

Example: University of Hawaii, Manoa, curriculum map page