Abstract Curriculum planning and instructional design strategies followed a curriculum planning by accretion process for most U.S. colleges and universities prior to World War II. More modem curriculum design models, such as the goal-oriented approach and the systems approach, are based on general problem-solving principles. A zero-based approach is taken, evaluating proposed new courses and programs in comparison to goals and objectives. A major curriculum redesign, which began in 1987 and which is an application of the systems approach to accounting curriculum development, is described in this paper. The four phases of the curriculum project-general planning, curriculum planning and analysis, system design, and system implementation and evaluation-and key design features of the new curriculum are discussed, as well as design and implementation challenges.
Mock et al. (Sun,) studied this question.