The Curriculum consists of a 1000+ page set of lecture notes and
supporting materials for 75 lectures organized into three
quarter length courses which might be taught over one school
year at the upper division university level. The courses are
entitled: While the name "curriculum" may imply a more rigorous
structure, the materials were designed to be easily modified and
rearranged according to individual instructors' preferences and
students' interests and backgrounds. By structuring the
materials as point-form lecture notes, rather than as dense
student-oriented prose, the essential themes are readily
apparent and easily modifiable. In fact, the success of the
Curriculum is certainly due in part to its non-prescriptive
nature. Instructors were free to use whatever parts were
appropriate and to ignore or augment those parts with which they
were dissatisfied. Since August 1990 when the Core Curriculum
was released, the NCGIA has distributed over 1500 copies to
institutions of higher education, secondary schoo