ABSTRACTRarely, on a major project, does a designer serve as his or her own SME, but the Singapore government's requirement for a curriculum to teach instructional design provided just such an opportunity. This case study presents the steps taken to verify the need for such a curriculum and the processes used to interrelate a variety of skills into a coherent curriculum. The reader is asked, in the presentation of the case, to anticipate the specifics of the next steps in the process, e.g., to identify the types of people to be interviewed in the needs assessment and the major questions you would ask. The article includes a hierarchy of the instructional design competencies and a list of courses which will be offered. It concludes with a description of the plan for implementing the curriculum in Singapore.