This course curriculum is intended for community college instructors and administrators to use in implementing an operating systems course. A student's course syllabus provides this information: credit hours, catalog description, prerequisites, required texts, instructional process, objectives, student evaluation, and class schedule. A student lecture guide consists of a sheet for each of the 22 chapters with contents, chapter objectives, rationale, learning activities, vocabulary, and evaluation. Chapter topics are as follows: introduction; hardware; software and data; linking the components; single- and multiple-user systems; command languages; MS-DOS commands; MS-DOS; UNIX commands and utilities; UNIX internals; libraries and the linkage editor; segmentation, paging, and virtual memory; virtual machines; networks and distributed systems; and database systems. A student lab guide provides this information for each of the 13 assignments: chapter with which the lab assignment is associated, objectives, materials required, laboratory handouts, learning activities, and steps. The instructor's course syllabus outlines prerequisites, required texts, references, required equipment and materials, instructional process, and student evaluation. Competency statements and a course outline are included. The instructor's guide presents this information for each unit: contents, objectives, required equipment and materials, procedures, learning activities, and evaluation. (YLB)