In Scientology a course consists of a checksheet with all the actions and material listed on it and all the materials on the checksheet available in the same order.
“Checksheet Material” means the policy letters, bulletins, tapes, mimeo issues, any reference book or any books mentioned.
“Materials” also include clay, furniture, tape players, bulletin boards, routing forms, supplies of pink sheets, roll book, student files, file cabinets and any other items that will be needed.
If you look this over carefully, it does not say “materials on order” or “except for those we haven’t got” or “in different order”. It means what it says exactly.
If a student is to have auditing or word clearing rundowns or must do auditing those are under ACTIONS and appear on the checksheet.
A course must have a Supervisor. He may or may not be a graduate and experienced practitioner of the course he is supervising but HE MUST BE A TRAINED COURSE SUPERVISOR.
He is not expected to teach. He is expected to get the students there, rolls called, checkouts properly done, misunderstoods handled by finding what the student doesn’t dig and getting the student to dig it. The Supervisor who tells students answers is a waste of time and a course destroyer as he enters out-data into the scene even if trained and actually especially if trained in the subject. The Supervisor is NOT an “instructor”, that’s why he’s called a “Supervisor”.
A Supervisor’s skill is in spotting dope-off, glee and other manifestations of misunderstoods, and getting it cleaned up, not in knowing the data so he can tell the student.
A Supervisor should have an idea of what questions he will be asked and know where to direct the student for the answer.
Student blows follow misunderstoods. A Supervisor who is on the ball never has blows as he caught them before they happened by observing the student’s misunderstanding before the student does and getting it tracked down by the student.
It is the Supervisor’s job to get the student through the checksheet fully and swiftly with minimum lost time.
The successful Supervisor is tough. He is not a kindly old fumbler. He sets high checksheet targets for each student for the day and forces them to be met or else.
The Supervisor is spending Supervisor Minutes. He has just so many to spend. He IS spending Student Hours. He has just so many of these to spend so he gets them spent wisely and saves any waste of them.
A Supervisor in a course of any size has a Course Administrator who has very exact duties in keeping up Course Admin and handing out and getting back materials and not losing any to damage or carelessness.
If Paragraphs One to Three above are violated it is the Course Administrator who is at fault. He must have checksheets and the matching material in adequate quantity to serve the course. If he doesn’t he has telexes flying and mimeo sweating. The Course Admin is in charge of routing lines and proper send-off and return of students to Cramming or Auditing or Ethics.
The final and essential part of a course is students.
If a course conforms with this P/L exactly with no quibbles, is tough, precisely time scheduled and run hard, it will be a full expanding course and very successful. If it varies from this P/L it will stack up bodies in the shop, get blows and incompetent graduates.
The final valuable product of any course is graduates who can apply successfully the material they studied and be successful in the subject.
This answers the question What is a Course? If any of these points are out it is NOT a Scientology Course and it will not be successful.
Thus, the order “Put a Course there!” means this P/L in full force.
So here’s the order, WHEN OFFERING TRAINING PUT A COURSE THERE.