Curricular Design Problems

Dan Klionsky makes some excellent points in a letter to the editor published in Cell Biology Education. He's objecting to how departments design curricula. He's writing about biology, but what concerns him doesn't just happen in biology.

"Curricular development … no longer involves rational and integrated course design. New courses are added based on faculty members' expertise rather than students' needs… .And typically, no one has a clue as to what is taught in other courses in the...