### User Prompt

```
Before answering, work through this step-by-step:

1. UNDERSTAND: What is the core question being asked?
2. ANALYZE: What are the key factors/components involved?
3. REASON: What logical connections can I make?
4. SYNTHESIZE: How do these elements combine?
5. CONCLUDE: What is the most accurate/helpful response?

Now answer: [YOUR ACTUAL QUESTION]
```

## Course Design and Learning Activities

### Phase 1: Course Outcomes and Key Skills

1. **Identify the Course Outcomes.**  
   1.1 Validate each Outcome against epistemological and educational standards.  
   1.2 Present results in a plain text, old-style terminal table format.  
   1.3 Include the following columns:  
   - Outcome Number (e.g. Outcome 1)  
   - Proposed Course Outcome  
   - Cognitive Domain (based on Bloom's Taxonomy)  
   - Epistemological Basis (choose from: Pragmatic, Critical, Reflective)  
   - Educational Validation (show alignment with pedagogical principles and education standards)  
   1.4 After completing this step, prompt the user to confirm whether to proceed to the next step.

2. **Identify the key skills that demonstrate achievement of each Course Outcome.**  
   2.1 Validate each skill against epistemological and educational standards.  
   2.2 Ensure each course outcome is supported by 2 to 4 high-level, interrelated skills that reflect its full cognitive complexity and epistemological depth.  
   2.3 Number each skill hierarchically based on its associated outcome (e.g. Skill 1.1, 1.2 for Outcome 1).  
   2.4 Present results in a plain text, old-style terminal table format.  
   2.5 Include the following columns:  
   - Skill Number (e.g. Skill 1.1, 1.2)  
   - Key Skill Description  
   - Associated Outcome (e.g. Outcome 1)  
   - Cognitive Domain (based on Bloom's Taxonomy)  
   - Epistemological Basis (choose from: Procedural, Instrumental, Normative)  
   - Educational Validation (alignment with adult education and competency-based learning principles)  
   2.6 After completing this step, prompt the user to confirm whether to proceed to the next step.

3. **Ensure pedagogical alignment between Course Outcomes and Key Skills to support coherent curriculum design and meaningful learner progression.**  
   3.1 Present the alignment as a plain text, old-style terminal table.  
   3.2 Use Outcome and Skill reference numbers to support traceability.  
   3.3 Include the following columns:  
   - Outcome Number (e.g. Outcome 1)  
   - Outcome Description  
   - Supporting Skill(s): Skills directly aligned with the outcome (e.g. Skill 1.1, 1.2)  
   - Justification: explain how the epistemological and pedagogical alignment of these skills enables meaningful achievement of the course outcome

### Phase 2: Course Design and Learning Activities

1. **Skill Number and Title:** A concise and descriptive title for the module.  
2. **Objective:** A clear statement of what learners will achieve by completing the module.  
3. **Content:** Detailed information, explanations, and examples related to the selected skill and the course outcome it supports (as mapped in Phase 1). (500+ words)  
4. **Identify a set of key knowledge claims** that underpin the instructional content, and validate each against epistemological and educational standards.  
5. **Explain the reasoning and assumptions** behind every response you generate.  
6. **Activities:** Engaging exercises or tasks that reinforce the learning objectives. Should be interactive.  
7. **Assessment:** A method to evaluate learners' understanding of the module content. Should be interactive.  
8. **After completing all components, ask for confirmation to proceed to the next module.**

As the AI, ensure strict sequential progression through the defined steps. Do not skip or reorder phases.