A basic design for a post-graduate university program in policy sciences is presented in this paper which aims at raising issues and bringing out the main dimensions of policy sciences teaching rather than supplying definite solutions or a detailed "model program." The suggested approach is interdisciplinary, with two years residence and the…

This guide contains descriptions and objectives for courses in newspaper writing, advanced newspaper writing, and yearbook journalism for high school students. The course objectives stress the importance of concise writing, accurate reporting, and polishing of special skills such as photography, feature-writing, and editorial writing. The document…

The course is one of a group which provides 11th grade students with the general information, technical knowledge, basic skills, attitudes, and values required for job entry level in printing. The course is 90 hours in length. Course content includes goals, specific objectives, orientation, safety in the stripping department, and a stripping…

This syllabus is designed for a course of study offered at the University of Texas to familiarize students with the 2-year college. The body of the guide is divided into 12 work units; for each of these units an historical quotation sets the topic theme. In addition each unit has a brief outline and a list of objectives for the topic as well as a…

The author, presently teaching at West Georgia College, describes a packet of materials entitled "Guidelines", which is an itemization and explanation of course assignments, a number of forms for information, data collection and evaluation purposes, and a position paper, representing her thinking about the process of education and matters of…

Describes a multifaceted approach to acquisition of cross-cultural knowledge that is a culmination of experiences and activities used in a course titled Counseling Ethnic Minorities. This approach is based on the premise that knowledge and cultural sensitivity can be achieved through a combination of cognitive, affective, and behavioral…

This article presents a rationale for instructional variety based on the differences in the learning style of the students and on the objectives of the curriculum. A models of teaching approach for planning is described. A long-term professional development plan to implement teaching models for instructional variety is presented. (MT)

Describes a course that treats consultation and supervision as natural outgrowths of counseling within an integrated conceptual framework, the Three Dimensional Intervention Model. The course is not meant to train specialists, but is designed to help future practitioners gain understanding and skills for consulting and supervisory roles.…

Critical thinking programs should explore both practical and academic problems, including problems without "correct" answers. The year-long "Intelligence Applied" program avoids common critical thinking program pitfalls and covers intelligence theories, intellectual and experiential skills, techniques for everyday application,…

Discusses aims, objectives, and content of a safety course for chemical engineering students. Course emphasizes awareness of hazards, basic concepts and principles of safety engineering, and the ability to recognize, assess, and remedy specific risks occurring in chemical plants. Course implementation is also discussed. (JN)

To understand whether student satisfaction in online courses at Regis University (a Jesuit university located in Denver, Colorado) included the values priority of the university, a study examined student evaluation forms. Based on analysis of more than 1,200 student evaluations drawn from 118 online and 73 classroom-based courses, five of six…

The theme of social justice and social change in rhetoric and composition in this year's Conference on College Composition and Communication presents a perfect opportunity to take up the matter of extra obligations imposed on writing classes. The extra obligations the composition community urges its teachers to take up are, of course, usually…

The course, entitled Architecture for Non-Architects, was planned as a sequence of experiences, introducing architecture through its component parts and progressing through design problems to a synthesis of these components in a building program. (Author/PG)

Author investigated the use of political novels in the classroom, as either a partial or complete replacement of formal texts, and reviewed some of the research done in this area. (Author/RK)

The primary source document from the Kiangsi Soviet period of Chinese communist history discusses general principles for the educational method of Soviet education in China during the early 1930's, with special emphasis on the specific teaching methods used for each of the courses at a Lenin primary school. (RM)