An innovative curriculum, Twentieth Century Man, takes one traditional course from each of three academic departments and modifies the content presentation so that overlapping themes are emphasized, developed in parallel, and synthesized across disciplines in a team-taught seminar. This cost-effective approach integrates concepts while retaining…

Discusses the planning, development, implementation, and course management required to use the Personalized System of Instruction in the basic speech communication course. (PD)

An aquatics fitness class given at Drake University (Iowa) is described. Students set up their own programs in consultation with the instructor choosing three components from the following list: cardiorespiratory, strength, flexibility, nutrition and weight management, and posture and body measurement. (JMK)

This article describes a mass media course called "Communications Skills." It stresses the involvement of students in creating their own productions thus stimulating them toward making a professional product. (RK)

Presented is the second of a two-part article describing the introductory undergraduate physics course taught at the University of Liverpool, England. This part of the article concentrates upon the laboratory aspect of the course. (SL)

Experience with mass sections in the Introduction to Business Data Processing course at the University of New Orleans has been positive. The innovations described in this articles have not only helped to conserve scarce resources but have, in the author's opinion, provided the potential for a more effective and efficient course. (HD)

Describes the "time" approach, a non-traditional method for teaching Bookkeeping I, which redirects the general climate of the first week of class by not introducing crucial balance sheet and journal concepts, but makes use of sections 441 and 446 of the Internal Revenue Code, thereby permitting students to learn the important role "time"…

Describes an alternative approach to teaching communication arts that focuses on the student's communicative experiences as the center of concern. (MH)

When students are nested within course sections, the assumption of independence of residuals is unlikely to be met, unless the course section is explicitly included in the model. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) allows for modeling the course section as a random effect, leading to more accurate standard errors. In this study, students chose one…

A justification for a strategy and the whole strategy then described and illustrated as it was applied to the development of a course for the Royal Australian Navy. (Author)

Considered the development of religious education programs in community colleges. (RK)

Article evaluated the need for training of career educators and described courses suitable for counselor education. (RK)

Discusses the curriculum of "Introduction to Genetics" of the Unitversity of Freiburg, West Germany. (DD)

A description of a practical graphic design course for educational television production. (HB)

Reports on three separate studies of business math and draws conclusive findings that might apply to other supporting courses. (Editor)