The document outlines an agenda for a workshop aimed at designing new first-year courses. On Sunday evening, participants will develop frameworks describing their institutions and stakeholders. They will then be formed into design teams. On Monday morning, teams will create frameworks about their students and develop a vision and learning objectives. In the afternoon, teams will identify curriculum ideas from a poster session and work on a preliminary course design. On Tuesday, teams will present their course concepts and discuss a curriculum reform case study and planning for staffing and sustaining new courses. The overall goal is for participants to design new first-year courses appropriate for their institutional contexts and student populations.

1. Sunday EveningBy the end of the evening we want…Participants able to describe the value of taking a user-oriented design perspective.

2. Participants drop their baggage. In order to maximize productivity in we want participants to get as much of their backgrounds on the table as possible initially

3. Participants describe the context in which they are designing. If we don’t identify the context first, we might design the right thing for the wrong place.