Abstract
The Curriculum does not arise from nothing ... but there are many foundations
or determinants that affect them, that gain the utmost importance when Designing
,Evaluating &Organizing the Curriculum and it’s a multi-overlapping determinants,
and the fact that today's world is passing through a stage of scientific development
and massive technological advances, this stage is Known by the scientific and
technological Revolution, which added to the human civilization huge toll of
knowledge in many areas, that increasing in quantity and quality day after day, and
while the educational or academic institutions is a social institutions created by the
community for the continuation and preparation of individuals to carry out their
responsibilities in it, and also are considered a tributary which supplies the
community with different scientific persons that advance the reality for the better,
many efforts have been made in the research and studies in the field of evaluation
and the quality of the Curriculum in academic institutions, given the escalating
emphasis on the concept of Reliability and Quality in the educational
institutions in general and higher education in particular, such as universities and
research centers. And in considering the above statements , the research seeks to
diagnose or explore the weaknesses in the quality of the curriculum in one of the
engineering colleges departments after being selected the University of AL-Nahrain,
where was the workplace of the researcher and after his contribution in the
preparation and study of the self-Assessment reports in one of its scientific
Department, that was the Architectural Department ,so it has emerged the need
for exploring the weaknesses in the curriculum after doing the self-Assessment
reports according to CRITERIA of (ABET) for Reliability . The research has selects
some academic years that was (2011-2012) and (2013-2014) to review the self-
Assessment reports pertaining to curriculum, which has been adopted and available
in Department Documentation section which has been possible for the researcher to
make use of them. The research concluded that the Curriculum for those years had
suffered from a certain weakness in some factors that have been drawn from the case
or determinants that affect them, that gain the utmost importance when Designing
,Evaluating &Organizing the Curriculum and it’s a multi-overlapping determinants,
and the fact that today's world is passing through a stage of scientific development
and massive technological advances, this stage is Known by the scientific and
technological Revolution, which added to the human civilization huge toll of
knowledge in many areas, that increasing in quantity and quality day after day, and
while the educational or academic institutions is a social institutions created by the
community for the continuation and preparation of individuals to carry out their
responsibilities in it, and also are considered a tributary which supplies the
community with different scientific persons that advance the reality for the better,
many efforts have been made in the research and studies in the field of evaluation
and the quality of the Curriculum in academic institutions, given the escalating
emphasis on the concept of Reliability and Quality in the educational
institutions in general and higher education in particular, such as universities and
research centers. And in considering the above statements , the research seeks to
diagnose or explore the weaknesses in the quality of the curriculum in one of the
engineering colleges departments after being selected the University of AL-Nahrain,
where was the workplace of the researcher and after his contribution in the
preparation and study of the self-Assessment reports in one of its scientific
Department, that was the Architectural Department ,so it has emerged the need
for exploring the weaknesses in the curriculum after doing the self-Assessment
reports according to CRITERIA of (ABET) for Reliability . The research has selects
some academic years that was (2011-2012) and (2013-2014) to review the self-
Assessment reports pertaining to curriculum, which has been adopted and available
in Department Documentation section which has been possible for the researcher to
make use of them. The research concluded that the Curriculum for those years had
suffered from a certain weakness in some factors that have been drawn from the case