Describes a chemistry course for liberal education college students, characterized by team teaching and application of knowledge to present problems and issues. (CS)

Describes ways in which instruction and evaluation are individualized for students in a small community college chemistry course. (CS)

Suggests examining the literature on state constitutional conventions as an approach to teaching the legislative process in state and local government courses at the college level. (KC)

Advocates the acquisition of library skills through the medium of sciences, and outlines a short science-based library course in operation in a county high school. (GS)

Describes important issues for understanding Latin American women. Concluded that while Latin American women were not equal to men, their inferiority was tempered by power resources available to them: relatives, ownership of property, participation in the labor force, and the church and courts. A course syllabus is included. (Author/DB)

The new teaching format of a behavioral science course at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine is described. Specific objectives were to present an introduction of life's developmental cycles, the nature of mind-body relationships, and dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship, and to develop interviewing skills. (MLW)

Explains how psychology teachers at the University of Georgia designed preliminary examinations in the psychology graduate program to demonstrate research skills. The prelims centered around choosing, analyzing, and elaborating three research problems. (DB)

Because student evaluations of teacher performance are often used in salary and promotion decisions, it is important that they are not influenced by student and course characteristics that are beyond the control of the instructor. This article investigates correlation of course and student characteristics and whether student responses on general…

The key to teaching history successfully is giving students the ability to apply the process of historical analysis to any material they encounter. A special interest history course at Boston College focused on assassinations in Europe and America in the twentieth century. (MLW)

A freshman-sophomore psychiatry course, "To the Asylum and Back: Implications of Efforts to Deinstitutionalize the Mentally Ill," offered at the University of California at Los Angeles is described. The topic was chosen because it constitutes a major dilemma that has developed in recent years in American psychiatry. (Author/MLW)

Discusses the teaching of French Canadian civilization courses within French departments and provides course outlines and a bibliography for a course in French Canadian history. (AM)

Discusses a one-semester course offered in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana which incorporates technical writing and the use of the chemical literature into a single course. (CS)

Describes and evaluates a college level introductory American government course which teaches students about citizenship by directing them to participate in local government meetings and write reports of the governmental units with which they become involved. (Author/DB)

Presents Part II of a description of a computer-oriented course on process control which has been offered at the University of Wisconsin for undergraduate students. Lecture topics and laboratory experiments are also included. (HM)

Provides a semester syllabus for a course in twentieth-century world literature and suggests selections to add to a world literature survey based on works of Nobel Prize winners. Includes an annotated bibliography of background information on both the literature and the philosophies of the twentieth century. (MKM)