Compares Organizing Principle, multi-syllabus, and modular approaches to second language course design and suggests a modular course design that offers the greatest flexibility for both the instructor and for future course planning by allowing the instructor to link various elements of this approach according to methodology and student needs.…

Proposes a media economics model to structure mass communications survey courses. Presents five assumptions valuable in creating an economic framework, and discusses how these concepts from microeconomics can apply to mass communications. (MM)

Paper reports the development and application of a framework for assessing course characteristics. Discussion focuses on the usefulness of the framework for predicting variance in students' performances and constructing, evaluating, and revising curriculums. (RB)

Describes an evaluation process for choosing high school journalism textbooks involving three stages: (1) identifying needs; (2) text ratings; and (3) actual book selection. (SRT)

Social work practice is defined, the objectives and content of beginning practice courses are outlined, and suggestions for organizing course content are presented, focusing on the essential difference between the classroom and the field, the conceptual vs. the concrete. (MSE)

This study was conducted to determine if there were any differences in the opinions of preservice teachers about the effectiveness of a new block structure for elementary education and methods courses and opinions about the previous course structure. The new structure implemented in the 2000-2001 academic year reduced the courses in elementary…

This document contains the proceedings of a conference held at the U.S. Military Academy to consider the question of core requirements for the courses often employed by partner disciplines, what concepts and procedural skills are really central, and how these questions might lead to the creation of a new undergraduate set of requirements that meet…

This guide is intended for teachers who want to learn more about educational design of college courses. Chapter 1 identifies various pressures for change in designing courses and urges creation of conditions that foster deep learning. Chapter 2 examines various models of the course design process. Chapter 3 discusses beliefs, values and ideologies…

Introductory courses in acting and directing should be combined. (CH)

A plan is suggested incorporating a three-course track: personal typing (a beginning course for everyone), intermediate typing (for the undecided or nonvocational typist to improve skills and learn basic production tasks), and career typing (for learning work tasks necessary on the job with at least entry-level skills). (SC)

Describes the reporting cources at San Antonio College and the journalism department in great detail. (GB)

Author states that information and communications technology offer students an opportunity for a better learning situation and considers developments taking place in both fields. (Author/RK)

Processes of change are noted as a course for the postgraduate Diploma of Education (La Trobe University, Australia) is created. Outcomes indicated there should be a careful and totally honet examination of beliefs and attitudes before the notion of innovation is considered. (JB)

City College of New York experiments with a course in human ecology, considering political, economic, social, psychological, and scientific implications of man's role in the environment. Current issues, problem research, and action projects are used in the three-part interdisciplinary approach. (BL)