curriculum review of university courses or programs

Since my department passed a resolution creating a curriculum review committee with student participation possible, this got me thinking about a number of issues, and as a result I've done quite a bit of reading on the subject. I will be posting in the research section of this blog my discussion of various aspects of that decision, including proposals for its work. Meanwhile, included in the reading list were

1. Lunde et al's Reshaping Curricula: Revitalization Programs at Three Land Grant Universities. This looked at more technical programs than our own, but the list of possible values that the department could embrace was interesting.
2. Peter Elbow's Embracing Contraries, a collection of essays that was quite illuminating on a number of points. It was interesting to read the correspondence between peers about visits to class.
3. A number of books by Graham Gibbs: Assessing More Students, Independent Learning with More Students, Problems and Course Design Strategies. These were all good, and all interesting.
4. Gaff's monumental Handbook of Undergraduate Curriculum Review, which had articles on every topic imaginable and discipline-specific proposals across any comprehensive university's degree programs.
5. Ronald Barnett's Learning to Effect, an edited collection from which I drew a number of ideas.
6. L.W. Andersen's Lecturing to Large Groups.