The KPT curriculum is a set of plans and arrangements regarding objectives, content and learning materials as well as methods used as guidelines for implementing learning activities to achieve higher education goals (article 35 paragraph 1 Law No. 12 of 2012). Based on this explanation, the higher education curriculum is a set of plans and arrangements regarding content, study and lesson materials as well as methods of delivery and assessment which are used as guidelines for implementing teaching and learning activities in higher education (Article 1 point 6 of the Minister of National Education Decree No. 232/U/2000 concerning Guidelines for Preparing Higher Education Curriculum and Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes). In paragraph 2 it is emphasized that KPT is developed by each tertiary institution with reference to the National Higher Education Standards (SN-Dikti) for each study program which includes the development of intellectual intelligence, noble morals and skills. Curriculum preparation is adjusted to KKNI standards and refers to SN Dikti and Permenristek number 44 of 2015, referring to the guidelines for preparing the 2016 Higher Education curriculum, with the main steps: (1) determining the profile of graduates, (2) determining learning outcomes (3) determining the study materials available. will be developed and needed for society or stakeholders in the future, (4) Determining courses and the amount of credits based on depth and breadth and the learning strategies used. Determining the depth, detail, breadth of study material.
Curriculum reconstruction is carried out in order to fulfill the achievements of competent study program graduates in accordance with the needs of stakeholders including: students, lecturers, study program associations, the business and industrial world, both private and government institutions. Besides that, it is also based on the demands of the developing industrial era such as the industrial era 4.0 and 5.0. in 2021 the preparation of an OBE-based curriculum. The education system in higher education is different from previous levels. Student independence starting from learning, looking for problems, theory and others is more explored in the tertiary sphere. This kind of culture usually begins to be developed in semesters 1 and 2 where students at the beginning of the semester receive basic lectures to adapt their previous culture to a new culture at university. This can indeed see the difference in thinking between students in semesters 1-2 and students in semesters 4-8. This difference has been resolved with new adjustments in semesters 1-2. This culture must be instilled in students to form mental, critical thinking, theoretical understanding to move into the real world, namely the world of work, social life in society and problem solving.