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This course focuses on the underlying philosophic and theoretical foundations that inform academic curriculum design and practice. The underlying competing philosophical and practical perspectives of curriculum design are full of contradictions, challenges, uncertainties and directions. Course participants will critically analyze these frameworks and perspectives as background for critiquing and designing academic nursing curricula and courses. This course is about what we teach, why we teach, who we teach, how we teach, and the everchanging context in which we teach. Attempts to "revolutionize" nursing curricula in the 1990's did not happen. Course participants will be challenged to think critically about ways to transform and revitalize nursing curricula.