Curriculum Structure

The Carpentries contains multiple Lesson Programs (Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, Software Carpentry). Each Lesson Program contains at least one curriculum. A curriculum is composed of one or more lessons. Lessons are built from a series of episodes.

More detailed definitions of these terms are available in the community glossary.

The table below provides some examples of lessons and episodes that exist within each of our lesson programs.

Lesson Program	Curriculum	Lesson	Episode
Data Carpentry	Ecology	Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Ecologists	Exporting data
	Genomics	Data Wrangling and Processing for Genomics	Assessing Read Quality
Library Carpentry	N/A	Open Refine	Faceting and filtering
	N/A	The Unix Shell	Automating the tedious with loops
Software Carpentry	N/A	Plotting and Programming in Python	Writing Functions
	N/A	R para Análisis Científicos Reproducibles	Guardando datos