Curricula design flow with embedded accreditation

Abstract

The design of a university curriculum is a process with multiple goals and several constraints to be taken into account. Accreditation issues are often tackled as a separate after-design process. This paper underlines the need to merge the two issues, by rigorously making internal quality assurance requirements, designed in such a way as to comply with requirements posed by possible accreditation processes, a driver for specifications. The paper proposes a procedure to this aim and describes a design flow, which on each step guarantees availability of proper documents.