Abstract
When it became evident a few years ago that the curriculum of the Creighton University College of Pharmacy must be reconstructed in the near future, the writer determined to proceed in a manner different from the usual. The usual manner of procedure is aptly described by Robert L. Kelly, Executive Secretary of the Association of American Colleges, as follows:|"It is unnecessary to attempt to account for the confusion which has arisen through the former method of curriculum building, a method, as our investigation shows, which is still the dominant one.|A careful scrutiny of the program of study of most of the colleges indicates that they are constructed very much as a tariff bill is constructed in the Congress of the United States. The final result is the outcome of strains and tensions, of concessions and exchanges as between departmental representatives.|The evidences that unifying principles are actually functioning in the development of the college curriculum are difficult to discover."|It was with this thought in mind that the writer conferred with Dr. William A. Kelly, Head of the Department of Education, The Creighton University, and enlisted his interest in the subject. This study is the result. The curriculum presented may, possibly, differ little from that which would have resulted from the usual procedure. However, in any event, this curriculum has a more nearly scientific basis and presumably a greater probability of efficiency.