In a response to Burke's analysis of the liberal arts curriculum, the integration of the dialectical and rhetorical concepts of liberal education is advocated. One suggestion is to incorporate interdisciplinary colloquia into liberal arts curricula. (MLW)

University-based review of international research centers, especially area studies centers, is encouraged. The issues are: What are the objectives of area research? According to insiders, what have been the main achievements? And what are some of the main problems and opportunities facing the centers now? (MSE)

Using wilderness themes from such diverse authors as Henry Thoreau, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Kurt Vonnegut, and the train-as-technology metaphor from Ray Bradbury and Robert Frost, the author describes a unique team-teaching curriculum that interweaves the literary and laboratory aspects of environmental concerns. (Editor)

The author presents four teaching activities that link language arts and history: historical dialogs, the Bible as literature and history, student-made history books, and historical graffiti. Each includes a rationale, activities, and evaluation methods. (SJL)

Discusses two graduate programs at the University of South Carolina: one that leads to a dual master's degree in English and librarianship and one that leads to a dual master's degree in English and business administration. (DD)

Examines the discrepancy between writing ability in composition classes and poor writing in other classes and suggests exercises that will better prepare composition students for the writing that will be required of them in other courses and in their careers. (HTH)

Considers the fractionalization of the social science disciplines indicating that this clear delineation of intellectual territory is important to research, but that in information assimilation and dissemination an interdisciplinary approach is more appropriate. Recommends two approaches to interdisciplinary studies based around history and ethnic…

Describes an interdisciplinary, team-taught Western Civilization course offered in two quarters at Greenville Technical College, North Carolina. Focuses on the content and format of the course, the use of Friday field trip labs, and student and faculty reactions. (AYC)

Describes concrete laboratory manipulations in which time and its measurement are studied while investigating the parameters affecting the functioning of a pendulum. Also describes the origin of pendula and how cultural and historical references are integrated into laboratory practice. (Author/JN)

A course to coordinate all of the various specialities and disciplines of dentistry with emphasis on esthetics, designed as an elective for the 1980 graduating senior class at Emory University School of Dentistry, is described. (MLW)

Presents a restatement of the three basic constructs of "language ego,""language ego boundaries," and "permeability of language ego boundaries," discusses interdisciplinary "borrowing" of constructs, and examines the question of theory validation. (Author/AM)

Describes interdisciplinary English programs in the following areas: reading, study, and communication skills; career exploration; humanities instruction; and social concerns. A bibliography is included. (DF)

Argues against police education as a separate entity in higher education and urges that criminal justice be combined with liberal arts in an interdisciplinary program of justice studies. Describes how such a program, incorporated within community college curricula, would allow law enforcement to compete with other professions for talented…

To study the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary approach, 14 students with good speech and hearing discrimination were selected from the class entering the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in 1979 and compared with a matched control group selected from data on 1978 students. (Author/PHR)

Relates the positive effects of using an historical document as a stimulus for class projects in the English classroom. (RL)