Describes an approach to teaching general and subject reference to students early in their academic life. Includes a bibliography of 20 guides. (JB)

A course in Kinematics uses behavioral objectives and problem-solving to speed learning of abstract principles. (GR)

Description of an experience-oriented methods course in the biological sciences for prospective teachers at Syracuse University. Activities include observing and evaluating teaching experiences, designing biology laboratory experiments, developing test items and learning specific biological techniques. Bibliography. (LC)

Discusses teaching strategies in the physical chemistry laboratory. These include taking students' personality factors into account, having students repeat the same investigation several times under partially changed conditions, presenting research problems for students to solve, and others. Indicates that approaches described may be suitable for…

The introductory sociology course, usually of a superficial and encyclopedic nature, should be replaced by three separate introductory courses of greater depth: (1) macrosociology, the world system of societies; (2) microsociology, the impact of societies on individuals; and (3) mesosociology, students' own society and its institutions. (Author/RM)

Teaching a course about third world women draws attention to the inequitable position, the problems, and the potential of women around the world. A rationale, outline, and resource list for such a course are provided. (SR)

Describes a course, taught jointly by electrical/chemical engineering departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, designed to teach the fundamental science of plasma processing as well as to give an overview of the present state of industrial processes. Provides rationale for course development, texts used, class composition, and…

It is valuable for psychology students to look at their discipline from a different cultural perspective. Described is a course, developed by the psychology department of Chapman College (California), in which students live in Mexico City for one month and immerse themselves in Mexican culture and psychology. (CS)

Students who wish to get bad grades should daydream, not read their textbooks or study manuals, avoid note taking, and procrastinate on assignments. This "manual" is used in an introductory psychology class to modify students' habits and change mediocre classroom behavior. (CS)