This course is designed to expose students to contemporary issues in curriculum studies and development in science education. The opportunity will be given to students to engage in some of the current complicated discourses in curriculum development, implementation, supervision and evaluation. Topics to be covered include: Understanding Curriculum in the following contexts: as Historical Text, Political Text, and Institutionalized Text; Gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity in a scientific and diverse milieu; Utopian vision, democracy and the egalitarian ideal; A vision of curriculum in the postmodern era.