Discusses curriculum/strategies used to teach a population education course in China. Sixteen lessons (one 45-minute lesson/week) are conducted to foster correct outlook and responsible attitude toward China's population situation, thereby promoting moral, intellectual, and physical development. Population education in other courses, student…

Describes how a production firm met the challenge of training American teachers at Department of Defense Dependent Schools, Atlantic Region, to use a single-camera, portable VTR system and to develop expertise in training others in video use. Discusses workshop format, course syllabus, instructional strategies, and project goals. (JN)

Describes a new journalism course offered at Fordham University (New York) that uses four devices: scene-by-scene construction, realistic dialog, third-person point of view, and symbolic recording of entire events. (HOD)

Describes a course to increase students' ability and willingness to use and read the scientific literature and to promote student contributions to the literature in an acceptable style and format. (Author/MA)

Describes an innovative teaching approach used in an undergraduate political science course on the American presidency. Procedures and objectives for centering the course on a press conference theme are presented. Information is also presented on course evaluation and student motivation. (DB)

Described is the Advanced Placement Program in Studio Art which encourages in-depth involvement by basing one-third of its requirements on the student's demonstrated ability to select and develop a project which makes greater demands than the usual assignment. This special project phase is described in depth. (KC)

Argues that teaching the concepts of conference planning offers a versatile focal point for business letter writing, report writing, group problem solving, and oral presentations. Offers an outline of such a course. (FL)

Outlines a basic writing skills course and provides statistics drawn from an existing course at San Diego State University concerning students' performance in the areas of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. (FL)

Describes a series of techniques used by instructors in sociology courses on the college level to help students learn about and become actively involved in using classical and contemporary sociological theory. Three concepts form the basis of the approach--activity, rationality, and personal knowledge. (DB)

Suggests several approaches to stimulate personal involvement of students in an undergraduate personality (psychology) course. Approaches include complementing book learning with experience, teaching relevant subjects, and minimizing student feelings of risk by providing them ample feedback. (Author/DB)

A course of mathematical methods for students of different degree programs is outlined. An approach to the teaching of the course is described which allows continuity between sections of apparently different material. (MP)

Describes a course which encouraged writer-photographer teams to pool their talents to produce articles for publication. (KS)

Presents a new research-based course on quantum mechanics in which the conceptual issues of quantum mechanics are taught at an introductory level. Involves students in the discovery of how quantum phenomena deviate from classical everyday experiences. (Contains 31 references.) (Author/YDS)

Describes an upper level communication theory course in which both mainstream positivistic/scientific and critical humanistic paradigms are explored in a dialectical fashion. Notes that students resist material that challenges their ingrained world view. Calls for a pedagogy that replaces value-free social science with humane values and critical…

Describes an undergraduate course designed to teach students how to think rhetorically. Notes that the course is organized around three questions students/critics are likely to ask, and presents a four-step approach to teach both the questions and the critical methods used to answer them. (MM)