This paper presents approaches and perspectives for anyone interested in designing university courses in the field of political communication. These include focusing on a single political figure or a single issue, focusing on a political genre, focusing on the mass media in relationship to political success, focusing on media exploitation, and…

This language arts curriculum guide is divided into the three sections dealing with grades 1-6, 7-9, and 10-12. Goals, objectives, and instructional resources are listed, and approaches and evaluations techniques are suggested for each course within the guide. The language arts courses for grades 1-6 emphasize handwriting, oral expression, written…

During 1973-74, the World Game was studied as an experiment on a community college campus. World Game is a means of engaging humanity's best intelligence on the situations and problems arising from living on Earth, and it is a means of ensuring that the intelligence and energy of wide ranges of people are engaged in the work. The experiment was…

Two From One Casting is a studio course dealing with exploratory applications of casting methods and materials for students in grades 7 through 12 who wish to make permanent those creations easily destroyed by time or negligence. Course rationale, enrollment guidelines, objectives, outline of content, descriptions of activities and procedures,…

This paper is divided into two parts; the first is an attempt to organize the various dimensions of death education in order to clarify educational foci appropriate to different needs for learning about death and dying. These dimensions of death education include: (1) the acceptance of living and dying as concommitant aspects of human enfolding;…

A course in Renaissance theatre offered within the general studies curriculum at Rhode Island College introduced students to the field of Jacobean and Elizabethan drama and to the dramatic arts, provided opportunities for students to help produce and act in scenes from several plays, and revealed to them the importance of vivid and detailed…

Explains the approach and learning processes which take place in an unstructured group experience and discusses the advantages of using such a method in the teaching of interpersonal communication. (MH)

Describes and provides evaluation of a one semester minicourse curriculum for undergraduate earth science instruction. (CP)

Describes the physics teaching conditions at Solihull Sixth Form College, a comprehensive secondary school in the County Borough of Solihull, United Kingdom. Available physics course, timetable, teaching system, laboratories and study rooms, and future developments are also discussed. (HM)

A study investigated student participation in class discussion in a college psychology course. Findings indicated that the quality of participation is related to personality. Teachers are cautioned to avoid one-sided discussions by dividing students into discussion groups which include intuitive, extroverted, judging, thinking, and perceptive…

Describes a management communication course that programs class activities but not individual student participation, delegating some routine activities to students and enabling teachers to handle larger classes. Discusses the workbook and assignment structure, evaluation and grading procedures, and positive student evaluations of the course. (RL)

The Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine is exploring the possibility of using a curriculum based on the systematic feed-forward establishment of competency-based terminal performance objectives to replace the cyclic feedback approach of curricular design presently being used. (Author/LBH)

The author outlines the development, structure, and teaching and assessment problems of one introductory discipline-independent mathematical modelling course. (MN)

Five sets of computer-assisted instruction programs support undergraduate curricula at St. John's. They give the individual student an opportunity to test his familiarity with fundamental drug nomenclature in an engaging, self-directed manner. (LBH)

Describes objectives, content, and teaching procedures of an introductory college-level urban geography course. Lectures, student papers, and role playing are designed to help students learn about central place theory, space economy, land use, and social geography. (Author/AV)