This document discusses organizing an educational course. It explains that organizing a course involves deciding on underlying systems to structure the content according to goals and objectives. This occurs at the level of the whole course, units/modules, and individual lessons. There are five overlapping processes for organizing a course: determining the organizing principle, identifying units based on principles, sequencing units, determining unit language/skills content, and organizing unit content. The document provides examples of how courses may be organized, such as by writing compositions, themes, historical periods, or cumulative tasks. Different ways to sequence a course are also discussed, such as building complexity or providing prerequisites between units.