Shows why English department chairpersons feel that they are under a state of siege; suggests that chairpersons form bonds with other humanities chairpersons, help faculty members understand current difficulties, take the idea of accountability seriously, focus on student writing skills, and try to determine which courses are educationally…

The authors maintain that an interdisciplinary approach to health and science education can encourage dialogue between citizens, government, and the scientific community. They describe the Elementary Science Study (ESS) curriculum, which integrates health and science education through classroom experimentation. (Author/DS)

Advocates generalized criminal justice training programs at community colleges, developed in close cooperation with police, corrections, and probation/parole agencies, that would acquaint students through internship opportunities with all criminal justice fields. (TR)

Presents some findings and recommendations of the University of Tennessee's research into ways of improving the management of large scale interdisciplinary research projects as part of the Research Management Improvement Program. (Author/AM)

Describes an introductory college science course for science majors and nonmajors. The course, team taught and interdisciplinary, stresses broad applications and topics of current interest. Presentations and instructors are changed regularly. The laboratory experiences include computer programming, are varied regularly, and allow student selection…

A clinical pharmacy training program for undergraduate students developed at the University of Iowa provides conjoint training of pharmacy and dental students in the clinic areas and pharmacy at the College of Dentistry. (LBH)

A new course, Environmental Chemical Engineering, introduced at Exeter University in 1972, is described. Focus is on cooperation among five participating departments, coordination of teaching, and the coherence of what was taught. The importance of the interrelationships existing between a new discipline and those outside the university are also…

Medical educators must acquaint students with the advantages of assessing the patient's total needs and of utilizing a broad range of services to help the patient achieve his fullest health potential. A schema is described for implementing the comprehensive health care concept. (Author/LBH)

Pacific Lutheran's integrated studies program includes eight courses and one seminar, all with "dynamics of change" as the theme. Courses are related to each other in pairs or sequences, each sequence having its own unifying and controlling topic expressed in the particular subjects of each course component. (Author/LBH)

Miami-Dade Community College offers a course called "The Art of Being Human," which uses a text-anthology, study guide, television films, and slide-tape independent study programs. The student taking this introductory course hopefully will be motivated to learn more about humanities in other courses or in self-study. (Author/LBH)

There is evidence that the engineering community is responding to objectives of integrating liberal education and increasing social consciousness of professionals. Rapid progress is not foreseen, however, since that would involve changing attitudes of engineering faculty. (Author/LBH)

Describes a college-level social science course which deals with social systems in a way that is meaningful to students, affectively-oriented, interdisciplinary, and supportive of class participation. (Author/DB)

Outlined is an interdisciplinary program in Ecology and Oceanography for grades six through eight. Numerous student projects are suggested in the outline and the course requirements and the project system are explained. (MA)

Multidisciplinary language courses offer hope for integrating language courses into a university undergraduate curriculum. Such courses use a target language, such as French, to explore problems in another discipline. (Author)

An innovative graduate course in education devoted to the development of techniques utilizing direct experience in the history curriculum, the 6-weekend course took a level of local cultural history each weekend, showed how that culture related to and changed the land, and whenever possible, communicated that with experiential learning. (NQ)