Suggests that having political science college students perform in class Machiavelli's play "Mandragola" is an excellent way to expand student's appreciation of Machiavelli. Article provides a synopsis of the play, discusses Machiavelli's intent, examines the meaning of the play, and presents classroom logistics. (RM)

Describes an animal laboratory course using male Siamese fighting fish which is inexpensive, compact, and permits students to conduct a wide variety of behavioral investigations. (Author/CK)

Describes a course in creative writing in which the experience of birth was the theme and includes several of the stories written by the students. (RB)

Describes a course designed to: use approaches developed in the study of transport phenomena as a unifying foundation; provide students with an understanding of the design and operation of these proceses; and review particular advantages and limitations of the processes being studied. Course content and teaching methods are included. (JN)

How an introductory political science course called "The Elements of Political Theory" is taught using Plato's "Republic," Hobbes's "Leviathan," the "Declaration of Independence," and the "Communist Manifesto" is discussed. In the course, students contrast the way ancients and moderns differ in…

The best way to teach psychology majors interviewing skills is through supervised practice. How one teacher used graduates of his interviewing techniques course as peer trainers in subsequent courses is described. (RM)

The use of the case method technique in a newswriting course stresses intensive analysis and discussions of carefully chosen "cases"--professionally written feature stories--that show what a feature is and how one should be written. (HOD)

Describes a course (given to junior/senior students with strong background in thermodynamics and transport phenomena) that covers the theoretical and practical aspects of properties estimation. An outline for the course is included. (JN)

One lemon, an assortment of other fruits and vegetables, a tennis ball, and a Galvanic Skin Response meter are needed to implement this approach to teaching about classical conditioning in introductory psychology courses. (RM)

Examines a psychology course intended to teach graduate students how to develop and run groups for training in helping skills, human relations, assertion training, weight reduction, and anxiety management. (DB)

Describes a course in mass communication that prepares media producers as media consumers. Discusses the use of simulation as a teaching strategy in such a course. (RL)

The paper explains an alternative structure to teaching micro and macroeconomic theory and describes the characteristics that make it an effective framework for introductory and principles courses. The teaching of economics principles typically proceeds by separating macroeconomic theory and microeconomic theory. But the use of the macro-micro…

In an attempt to motivate students learning a social studies unit on the Middle Ages, elementary teachers developed cooperative planning lessons and then combined groups to culminate the unit with a medieval fair. (Author/RK)