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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1982
Traditionally, humanities instruction at two-year colleges has been identified with transfer education. Since enrollments are decreasing in humanities classes, the future viability of the humanities curriculum will depend on providing humanities instruction to vocational students. This fact sheet discusses some obstacles to changing the humanities…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Humanities Instruction
Abell, Arianne – 1999
This digest defines interdisciplinary courses, presents the benefits and challenges of offering them in the community college, and describes six existing interdisciplinary courses at community colleges around the country. Interdisciplinary courses are characterized by the following: they tend to be highly innovative; they incorporate concepts and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1984
Educational accountability is central to the reputation of the nation's community colleges. Some community colleges are adopting mastery learning, competency-based education, curriculum tracking, and/or minimum competency-testing as a means of remaining educationally accountable. Mastery learning programs, under which students are required to…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Sheldon, Caroline Q. – 2002
This digest offers community college academic leaders a synopsis of the key components necessary for building a successful developmental education instructional framework. Specific emphasis is placed on program structure, faculty, and program improvement. Developmental education is defined as "courses or services provided for the purpose of…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Developmental Studies Programs
ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1984
Honors programs are not a major part of the community college curriculum due to the colleges' focus on providing access to nontraditional students, as well as the feeling of some community college educators that honors programs are inherently elitist. A 1975 survey found that only 47 of 644 responding institutions had formalized honors programs. A…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Community Colleges, Curriculum Design
McCarthy, J. Christopher – 1995
The Project for Adult College Education (PACE) is a general education core curriculum designed for working adults. PACE students receive approximately half the classroom hours in each subject area that they would in a traditional classroom. The balance of time is devoted to viewing course-related instructional television and participating in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges
