Restructuring the Curriculum – Pedagogy and Practical Implications

The University of Leeds has been engaging in a comprehensive strategy of curriculum redesign since August 2021. This paper is a discussion of the curriculum redesign within the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). Within POLIS we began by examining our curriculum structures. We then needed to bring practical considerations into that discussions to ensure that our plans were achievable and reasonable within a large campus-based university. Within those discussions we needed to balance what students want and need with the needs and wants of a tired staff body, campus limitations and changes within higher education more generally. Can we use new and improving technology to help us with these aims? Is that beneficial or counter-productive? This paper will outline the “Curriculum Redefined’ project and how we are implementing this within POLIS as well as providing some recommendations for the future of strategic implementation.