Describes a French industrial design school. Information includes student selection, curriculum, projects, partnership with industry, studios, research, and an example of a case study. (YP)

Describes a course being taught at Lehigh University (Pennsylvania) which is designed as a survey of the major environmental, resource, energy, and population problems facing modern society and a review of the historical and philosophical approaches to the relationship between humans and nature. (TW)

The Association of American Colleges has made grants totaling $135,000 for the development of pilot courses relating to philanthropy and its role in shaping the history and character of American society, preparing students for civic responsibility and public service and helping to insure the future leadership of philanthropy. (MSE)

Describes new secondary geography curriculum of the USSR. Curriculum is structured to provide four separate courses spanning 357 class periods over a number of school years. The translated documents include course descriptions along with teaching suggestions and evaluation procedures. (JDH)

An art project that involved middle school students in picking a story, making puppet characters, and filming a television show is described. The students also made television commercials. (RM)

This art project involved fifth graders in producing one-minute television commercials. The subject matter for the commercials was determined by school events. The commercials were shown several weeks before the special event they advertised. (RM)

A cross-age art project involving second graders and high school students is described. Each group investigated the design qualities of several popular picture books and then wrote their own stories. The second graders had to illustrate the high school stories and vice versa. It was a tremendous success. (RM)

A senior psychology seminar that dealt with recent psychological, sociological, and feminist literature on sexual victimization is described. Major topics addressed were rape, childhood sexual abuse, and incest. The topics of pornography, sexual harassment, and sexual exploitation in the media were also covered. (Author/RM)

Outlines a distance education course in telecommunications offered through Brunel Technical College, Bristol, England. Objectives of the college, the sponsor, college staff, and students enrolled in the course are investigated together with problems, cost implications, and student and staff perceptions. Distance and evening students' performance…

Discusses conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of a calculus course that utilizes a multi-user microcomputer system with graphics terminals. The numerical and utility routines of the software are briefly described, and examples of several types of calculus problems that can be solved utilizing the system are reviewed. (Author/MBR)

Summarizes results of a University of Nebraska study on effects of different teaching methods on student performance in a computer literacy course for business administration students. Merits and weaknesses of the large class approach--the more successful method--are discussed, and academic achievement as a function of gender is analyzed. (MBR)

For a class project students in an industrial/organizational psychology course had to construct a performance appraisal instrument for assessing the instructor's performance. Evaluations revealed that students found the exercise useful. (RM)

The American Association of Dental Schools' Curriculum Guidelines include an introduction to the discipline and its interrelationships with other disciplines, prerequisites, a core content outline, specific behavioral objectives, and notes on sequencing and faculty. (MSE)

Computer-assisted-instruction software was developed to supplement the conventional lecture-laboratory mode of instruction with another instructional aid for learning science in an individualized, nonthreatening environment. This development project was designed to teach physical concepts, mathematical techniques, and problem solving strategies.…

Plain Doctoring, an elective, preclinical seminar on the phenomenology of the patient and the physician at Harvard Medical School, is described. Home visits serve as the major text for examining the patient's experience of illness and treatment. Readings in the humanities complement the house calls. (Author/MLW)