Votes being counted during the January 23 2008 Faculty Meeting


UPIS Updates Curriculum
Tonio Ocampo (02.29.2008)

Last November 7, 2007, the UPIS Faculty voted to update the 32-year old curriculum framework of UPIS. In the original framework, products of the curriculum had three possible destinations - university education, vocational/technical education, and employment. The Faculty decided that the destinations be reduced to higher education/post secondary to reflect changes in the curriculum that have taken place since its inception in 1976.

In line with this change and as a result of a review of the various curricular programs, several proposed changes in individual programs were made. On January 23, 2008. The UPIS Faculty voted to implement the following changes.

  1. Reduce the contact hours of Health 3-6 from 2.5 hours per week to 1 hour per week
  2. Reduce the contact hours of Health 7-10 from 3 hours per week for one semester to 1 hour a week for two semesters
  3. Reduce the contact hours of PA 5-6 from 5 hours per week to 2.5 hours per week
  4. Abolition of the Assistance Component Work Program
  5. Extend Art 3-6 to one year (from one semester)
  6. Institute Art 7-9

One proposal that failed to pass was the proposal to reduce the number of required electives from 6 to 3.

These changes have also been approved at the college level (the College of Education) and will take effect next school year (2008-2009).

All these changes occurred as a result of a curriculum review called the SIV Project (Streamline, Integrated and Validate the UPIS Curriculum) which started in late 2006. The project started out as an initiative of Department of Science to have its program evaluated by a panel of content experts from the tertiary level (i.e. the UP College of Science). Soon after, the Mathematics Department followed suit. Aware of the potential benefits of such an exercise, the UPIS Administration formulated a program to evaluate the UPIS curriculum which would include the evaluation procedures undertaken by the Departments of Science and Math.

 


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