STATE COLLEGE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES

MANDAILING NATAL
ENGLISH TEACHING DEPARTMENT

COURSE DESIGN

Curriculum and Syllabus

 Planning and form

Successfully arrived
Package/message

Courier/curere

Planning = Future
prediction

Form = Present Condition

Curriculum
 What?

UU No. 20 Tahun 2003, curriculum is a set of

planning about objectives, contents, material
and technique of learning in order to achieve
national education goals.

Planning Learning
contents
Goal
 What?

 Hamalik (2005) menyatakan kurikulum

adalah suatu program pendidikan yang
disediakan untuk membelajarkan siswa yang
dengan program ini siswa melakukan
berbagai kegiatan belajar sehingga terjadi
perubahan dan perkembangan tingkah laku
siswa, sesuai dengan tujuan pendidikan dan
pengajaran
 Curriculum
Baene (1986) discussed curriculum as follows:
A. Curriculum as product : syllabus, RPP, Media,
Instructional media
B. As program : the course of study offered by
school or college in form set of activity
C. As learning output : knowledge of content,
skills, attitudes, and behavior
D. As learning experience: impact on students’
lives and their experience
Function
 The adjustive or adaptive function: curriculum
functions as adaptive for the change of education
and needs in the future
 The integrating function: tool for individual people
that can integrate in society
 the differentiating function: serving students from
the diversity
 the propaeduetic function: to set up student for
getting higher level education, what can they do
 the selective function: give chance for select the
program based on their needs and ability
Component of curriculum
 1.    Aims

 2.    Content

 3.    Strategy

 4.    Evaluation
Syllabus
 The syllabus is defined as the documents that consist of
topics or portion covered in a particular subject
 Syllabus: outline the goal and objective of a subject that
applied in specific steps and technique in classroom
 A syllabus a requisite document for teaching in that it
serves to outline the basic elements of a course including
what topics will be covered, a weekly schedule, and a list
of tests, assignments, and their associated weightings
 A syllabus is a document that outlines all the essential
information about a college course
 Curriculum vs Syllabus
BASIS FOR CURRICULUM SYLLABUS
COMPARISON
Meaning Curriculum is the overall content, Syllabus is the document that
taught in an educational system or contains all the portion of the
a course. concepts covered in a subject.
Origin Latin “curricula, to run a course Greek “sittuba” meaning title
slip or label
Set for a course A subject
Typical Prescriptive Descriptive
Scope Wide Narrow
Sett out by Government, college, institution Teacher, tutor, instructors,
coach, lecturer
Term Till the course last. Longer For a fixed term, normally a year.
Short
Uniformity Same for all teachers Varies from teachers to teachers
Relationship curriculum,
syllabus and teaching
 Function
 Syllabus as a contract
-Responsibility students and teachers (assignment,
presentation, reading source, making resume)
- Rules to be followed by students (attendance, missing
exam, etc)
 Syllabus as a permanent record
- Document for grading, accreditation, evaluation and
archive
 Syllabus as an instructional guideline
- Teaching activity (material, technique, students activity,
time allocation, assessing )
 Type

 Structural syllabus (focusing more into

grammatical form)
 Situational / topical syllabus (focusing on
context and condition. It is a communicative
competence
 Functional syllabus ( focusing on semantic
use ) asking for permission, asking
information, talking about yourself, agreeing
someone’s opinion)
Reflection