Gives a syllabus and suggested activities for an evening adult course in survival German for travelers. (EKN)

Describes a software package called "Hi-Res Secrets," a programmer utility designed to teach how to create and manipulate block shapes, character graphics animation, character fonts, color fill, and multiple color graphics. Also describes the continuing education course at the University of California (San Diego) in which the package is used. (JN)

A comprehensive course on cancer prevention developed for the University of Maryland School of Medicine under a contract with the National Cancer Institute is described. This innovative, multidisciplinary, modular curriculum package was tested as a four-week elective, revised, and field tested again. (Author/MLW)

Discusses how energy conservation can be integrated into a course on staged operations. Includes a course outline, sources of materials, and examples used in the course (low pressure operation, retraying for higher efficiency, and heat pumped towers). (SK)

Self-study materials, consisting of abridged didactic information concerning basic aspects of exceptionalities, accompanied by written exercises aimed at fostering accepting attitudes toward exceptional children, were successfully used in a preservice teacher education course. The course was conducted without allocating large blocks of course time…

Describes a forensic-oriented, college-level course in consumer chemistry. Includes course goals, topical outline, and list of chemical ingredients in consumer products useful for student research projects. The first section of the course focuses on mathematics since students in introductory courses may fear doing the most rudimentary mathematical…

Provides background information on and a brief description of the content and aims of the AO syllabus in electronics. The syllabus is divided into six sections: (1) measurement/instruments; (2) materials, devices, and transducers; (3) digital electronics; (4) analog electronics; (5) electronic systems; and (6) electronics impact on…

Describes a unit of instruction that involves the rhetorical situation of an in-class corporation to give students experience in abstract and report writing. (AEA)

The use of continuous simulation is promoted as a teaching tool in the undergraduate curriculum. Simulation, advances in continuous simulation, an approach to teaching system dynamics, computer languages deemed suitable for continuous simulation, and an outline of a prototypic first course in continuous simulation are presented. (MP)

Describes the descriptive inorganic chemistry component of a second year course in intermediate general chemistry at Sir Wilfred Grenfall College (Canada). Includes course content, listing of audiovisual aids, and discussion of textbooks used. (Author/JN)

Details are given of a university course that utilizes computer programing to help students explore aspects of number theory. The course is thought to provide acceleration of the discovery process to the point where pupils can study a full range of topics. (MP)

Describes the elements of data processing documentation, presents and discusses a model syllabus for a course that takes into account each element of data processing documentation, and examines the requisite knowledge for teaching such a course. (HOD)

Describes a three-credit elective course at Notre Dame, Design of Environmental Health Control Systems, offered to senior civil engineering students and graduate students in health engineering. (CS)

A seven-week sequence of one-hour sessions of practice in assertiveness skills is elaborated. The mini-course is designed for the personal and professional development of senior baccalaureate nursing students. (SK)

Describes senior research project centered around three facets of wine made from locally grown grapes: methods of deacidification, effect of pectic enzyme use during vinification, and qualitative/quantitative composition of total phenols of wines. Includes student participation (1975-1980) in and outcomes of the program, and laboratory techniques…