Providing students a general viewpoint to learning and teaching models, introducing to students the position of constructivist approach in science education, the history and varieties of it

The basic concepts of curriculum development; historical, philosophical, and social bases of curriculum development, curriculum development approaches and models, need assesment and evaluation in education, planning curriculum development, the processes of curriculum design, applying the curriculum, continuing the curriculum, new approaches in curriculum development and the effects of new trends to the process, reviewing curriculum researches, to prepare and to evaluate a curriculum design sample.