States that undergraduate psychology curricula emphasize abstract, generalized topics which do not reflect changes in the field of psychology or its relevance to real world problems. The author advocates the integration of theoretical concepts into areas of applied psychology and presents a course outline to achieve this goal. (AM)

This course outline and bibliography on Peru during the middle years of the nineteenth century includes general works in English and Spanish. Entries are organized chronologically and focus on a variety of topics, including efforts to modernize society, the large unassimilated Indian population, geographic isolation, economic problems, militarism,…

Provides guidelines for developing an inexpensive television production curriculum using community access cable television. (CMV)

Describes the new physics courses, and course combinations with physics, that were introduced after 1973, and are being offered in addition to the existing four-year sandwich course in applied physics. (GA)

Describes various methodologies used at the Queensboro Community College, New York, to enrich some of the topics traditionally included in the introductory course such as union management relations, social responsibility and business ethics, internal organization structure, and small business management. (TA)

Describes a two-semester, problem-based learning in organ-systems physiology course. Employs several types of problems including clinical, laboratory research-based, real-life scenarios, and published research articles. Contains 29 references. (DDR)

Associated Canadian Theological Schools is a graduate seminary consortium affiliated with Trinity Western University. Since its beginning in 1988 it has had a required one credit research course as a prerequisite for all programs. Several factors demanded the creation of an online version of the course as an alternative to the ongoing live course,…

Article described the educational contributions made by Ralph Tyler in the 1920s and 1930s. (RK)

If degrees are interdisciplinary, minimal conditions concerning course structure, content and academic organization have to be met for them to be successful. Course descriptions are included in the appendix. (Author/PG)

Ethnic studies are focused on the problems, history, culture, customs, values, and politics of white ethnic groups in America. (Author/PG)

A special chemistry course was designed and written for the nonscience major or non collegebound secondary school student. Both the textbook and the laboratory manual were field tested in two small rural schools of southwestern New Mexico; students from four similar schools served as controls. Student populations involved were of mixed ethnic…

A new one-semester course in geometry was designed, less axiomatic in structure yet including content traditionally contained in a first course in geometry. Conducting original investigations, constructing definitions, developing arguments to explain relationships, and creating resource materials are additional objectives, with many experiences in…

The continued growth of the data processing industry has been accompanied by a need for personnel trained to operate, program, and utilize electronic data processing equipment. Education must be provided to those who seek to enter this industry. Successful programs have been developed at the secondary school level in Massachusetts. This article…

A business statistics course based on audiotutorial instructional resources is described. The course, taught at Metro State College in Denver, Colorado, consisted of 13 modules which a student normally could complete in seven weeks or less. A feature of the course was a set of incentives to prevent students from procrastinating their completion of…