Explanation:

Include Agency, Discipline, and Office

Example:

U.S. Geological Survey, WRD, Colorado Water Science Center

Explanation:

Include formal name of requesting supervisor, their agency, their Discipline, and their Office.

For the pre-determined STED courses, please include the STED Committee as well.

Examples:

James E. Kircher, USGS
WRD, Chief, Colorado Water Science Center

USGS, WRD, Science and Technical Employee Development (STED) Committee

Explanation:

Self-explanatory

Include any subtitle to the course title.

Include any keywords that a student may search on in TMS to find this course. "USGS" must be one of the keywords.

Examples:

Title: Field Hydrology—Cableway Safety

Keywords: USGS, hydrology, field hydrology, cableway safety, water, hydrologist, hydrotech

Explanation:

• Course goals describe the overall purpose of the course - what you, as an instructor, want students to walk away with when the course is completed.
• Course goals make a broad statement about the need, state or condition to be changed through instruction.
• Course goals are determined by the general purpose of the course within the larger curriculum and the audience for which the course is delivered.
• Goals are generated by identifying a disparity between a current state or capability and a desired state (we call this the "skill gap"). Instruction is then designed to bridge that disparity.

The course goal(s) will also be seen by the student at the beginning of the course. You may have more than one course goal, but if there are several more, it may be time to look at creating complementary courses to the one you are currently developing.

Examples:

To train all processing staff in the policies and procedures that relate to the Team Production Process initiative.

This course provides a basic introduction to the field of psychology.

This course will teach advanced principles and methods of systems analysis.

Explanation:

Hopefully, if you've taught the class before, you have student evaluations regarding the course. Revisit these evaluations. Did students suggest putting a lesson, or lecture elsewhere in the course of the deliver? A short statement of who will be trained and who will not be trained will suffice.

Example:

The audience will be all employees involved in production at both the field and regional levels, their managers up to and including the division managers, and appropriate members of the Sales force.

Explanation:

The Prerequisite(s) could be skills or another course within the same curriculum; for example, FrameMaker 101 is the prerequisite course to FrameMaker 201.

Examples:

The prerequisite for this course is on-line course, FrameMaker 201.

Basic knowledge of calculus is required to do well in this course.

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