The College Adapter Program (CAP) is a program to train inner-city young men and women with high potential for post-secondary technical training. These young men and women either have dropped out of high school, or have been insufficiently prepared in high school for further educational training. The Curriculum Design monograph is a statement of those considerations, objectives, and procedures that the CAP staff believes are important for inclusive and effective curriculum design. The primary purpose of the Curriculum Design monograph is to present some practical suggestions for methods to design a comprehensive curriculum, all of which have proven successful in CAP, and models that can be adapted to other programs. The suggestions that the CAP staff believes are significant for adequate curriculum design are presented here: purposes of a syllabus of instruction; arrangement of topics in a course plan; ways of devising course skill objectives; selection and utilization of materials; utilization of homework assignments, testing, and grades; and, selection of skill objectives for language arts, mathematics, science, and elective courses. Practical suggestions are followed by a text that offers explanation and/or examples. Appendices of sample syllabi for several courses and annotated bibliographies by subject areas are also provided. (Author/JM)