A secondary history teacher describes how he uses rock and roll music to help students study and interpret modern American history. Besides being a lot of fun to teach, a rock unit makes students realize that even contemporary music has a place in history. (RM)

Describes Notre Dame High School's (California) integrated bioethics course, which contains units on basic concepts of goals, rights, and duty ethics; reproductive technologies; genetic technologies; death and dying; behavior modification; and experiments with human subjects. Provides a bibliography of student and teacher materials. (DMM)

Describes a two-semester course designed to explain the economic aspects of the chemical industry to a variety of students in chemistry or related fields. Includes course objectives, suggested teaching methodology, and content of eight course categories (such as basic skills exercises, elucidation of specialty products, and alternate process…

At many colleges and universities, an opportunity exists for geographers to offer and popularize an interesting course that includes as its central theme geographical, geological, and ecological hazards and disaster. The course is outlined and described, and instructional materials are listed. (RM)

Describes a scheme in which students are arbitrarily paired and presented with a menu of 11 experiments (as well as a figure illustrating their relationships). Each student performs seven experiments in triplicate during the 11 3-hour laboratory periods. Goals of this course are included. (JN)

Describes a course that trains students to become laboratory aids, focusing on course requirements, regular student duties, and rules/policies governing student behavior. Also offers suggestions for implementing similar courses in which students gain laboratory experience as well as learn laboratory skills. (JM)

A teacher-developed economics newspaper brings real-world problems to the college classroom. The teacher must clip four or five articles a week, tape them to sheets of paper, underline key economic terms, and under each article write a few questions. Every four weeks a newspaper quiz is administered. (RM)

Students preparing to become art teachers at Massachusetts College of Art must take a course that teaches them the techniques of historical research. Students choose their own research topics. One student found part of a Chautauqua industrial art desk, the researching of which opened up many new areas for historical investigation. (Author/RM)

Describes a one-semester biochemistry course designed for students who have completed courses in biology, CHEMStudy chemistry, and physical science. Course goals include presenting biochemical concepts (in preparation for college courses), challenging students considering science-related careers, and serving as a springboard for science fairs. (JN)

A survey of 71 American colleges of pharmacy revealed that 30 offer some sort of formal physical assessment instruction; an additional 18 have plans to offer such instruction. Course content and instructional hours of existing programs are tabulated according to degree and predominant instructional interest. (Author/MLW)

Describes a writing course developed at Rutgers University (New Jersey) for increasing enrollment of elementary school teachers. Participants spend the bulk of their time in each course writing, discussing the writing in small groups and the processes and problems of the writing. (HTH)

An applied course designed to allow students to formulate pharmacokinetic recommendations individually for actual patient data and compare their recommendations to those of a pharmacokinetic consulting service is described and evaluated, and an objective student evaluation method is outlined. (MSE)

Slides were used to inspire eighth- and ninth-grade students in a unit on world architecture. The course is described, and a recommended list of print and visual resources is provided. (RM)

An introductory course in BASIC programming for foreign language teachers that both develops skills in programming and encourages teacher use of computer-assisted instruction is described. More advanced questions concerning the manipulation of text in foreign language computer-assisted instruction are also discussed. (MSE)

Described is a method of lecturing in which the lecture period is divided into a number of segments. Only some segments involve the lecturer talking. In others students discuss topics or complete exercises. An example of such a lecture on aspects of Christaller's central place theory is described. (Author/RM)