Canadian Film will be a new course in the Communications Studies department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City particularly designed for non-Canadian Midwestern US students. It will not only introduce students to the richness and significance of Canadian film as both art and entertainment (which is virtually unrecognized around here),…

Pressure upon institutions of higher education to attract more students and to cut back on the number of courses offered has increased in recent years. A part of the problem is to determine which courses should continue to be offered and to better fit student interests to the course available. One solution to this problem, is the offering of…

The complexity of rural practice in rural and remote communities means that higher order skills are required by rural social workers. In 1991, the University of Ballarat in Victoria (Australia) began teaching a course to prepare students for work in rural social welfare. The course was developed partly to meet industry needs, as local agencies…

This study summarizes courses and programs in scientific and technical communication during the past 20 years. The results show that there has been a rapid increase in the number of courses and programs offered at two-year and four-year colleges and universities, as well as a 500% increase in the number of schools offering courses. The results…

The TeleCampus online database, a project of TeleEducation NB (New Brunswick), aims to be the world's leading World Wide Web site for students seeking information about online courses and programs and for educational institutions and training companies wishing to promote their offerings. It is a comprehensive multilingual database of courses and…

Two components in making decisions about selecting courses are examined: course descriptions by instructors and evaluation of instruction by students. Faculty attitudes toward student evaluations in general and their attitudes about evaluations being used for instructional improvement, administrative decisions, and course selection are discussed,…

The Student Course Information Project (SCIP) at the University of Minnesota, which provides information to help students in course selection and in planning programs of study, is described. SCIP began as a pilot project in the 1979 spring quarter, based on student opinions concerning course selection, statistics on incompletes and course…