Method and system for academic curriculum planning and academic curriculum mapping

A system for performing academic curriculum planning involving multiple organizational levels within an institution, comprising:

• a programmable computer configured to:
• receive first goals relating to a first organization level of the institution;
• receive second goals relating to a second organizational level of the institution;
• determine a first respective alignment that indicates which, if any, of a plurality of academic courses are aligned to at least one of the first and second goals;
• generate a mapping of the first respective alignment;
• determine whether at least one of the first goals, the second goals, or the plurality of academic courses have been modified;
• and update the first respective alignment in response to a user requesting that the first respective alignment be updated after the determination is made that at least one of the first goals, the second goals, or the plurality of courses have been modified, the updating of the first respective alignment being based on the modification.

Computer readable media containing programming instructions for performing academic curriculum planning involving one or more organizational levels within a multi-level institution, that upon execution thereof, causes one or more processors to perform the steps of:

• receiving first goals relating to a first organization level of the institution;
• receiving second goals relating to a second organizational level of the institution;
• determining a first respective alignment that indicates which, if any, of a plurality of academic courses are aligned to at least one of the first and second goals;
• generating a mapping of the first respective alignment;
• determining whether at least one of the first goals, the second goals, or the plurality of academic courses have been modified;
• and
• updating the first respective alignment in response to a user requesting that the first respective alignment be updated after the determination is made that at least one of the first goals, the second goals, or the plurality of courses have been modified, the updating of the first respective alignment being based on the modification.