This paper promotes an undergraduate course that would discuss the great ideas of Plato, St. Paul, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, B. F. Skinner, and Konrad Lorenz. This course would help students understand human values and behaviors while focusing on historical, world, and national problems. Tentative solutions would then be…

This bibliography provides a list of references for developing curriculum on women. References are grouped in seven sections which address: (1) introduction to women as a subject of study (4 references); (2) scholarship on women (7 references); (3) rethinking the disciplines (23 references); (4) pedagogy (20 references); (5) advice and experience…

Reviews traditional approaches to women's history, questioning the value of historical periodization, categories of social analysis, and theories of social change. Outlines the biographical, political, historical era, family/community history, guest speaker approaches to women's history. Offers an extensive bibliography of women's studies…

This review of academic programming considers changes that have occurred as a reaction to real or perceived shifts in institutional and social conditions and values, program design, and program approval, review, and evaluation. Among the conditions influencing programming decisions in the late 1970s are open-access policies, affirmative-action…

Community mental health curriculum in schools of social work education is discussed. The contents are compiled from a series of empirical studies, interviews, and meetings with social work faculty and students, and from analyses of curriculum materials as part of a three-year study conducted by the Council on Social Work Education. Chapter 1…

Lists and annotates books that could be integrated into the syllabi of undergraduate psychology courses to foster a cross-cultural perspective. Organizes books by topic of major concern under two general headings: resources useful in developmental and educational psychology and resources useful in social and organizational psychology. (KH)

The literature pertaining to the processes and methods of curriculum design and evaluation in higher education is widely scattered and not in the form most useful to those designing curriculum. This monograph identifies many of these resources and discusses them in terms of their practical use. Case studies are used to illustrate the use of the…

Provides selected references to help college faculty integrate women's studies into the college curriculum and gives examples of integration projects along with methodologies. Offers resources for integration into the liberal arts curriculum but does not include references for integration into specific academic disciplines. (LS)

The core curriculum concept and reasons behind the current momentum for curricular reform are examined, and the issues involved in institutionalizing new core curricular ideas are exemplified. Reform follows from changes in the character of undergraduate education toward less restrictive, more diffuse requirements in the area of general education…

The continued interest in the development and improvement of general education programs in the colleges and universities has prompted the Office of Education to publish this bibliography for the period 1949-1953. In compiling this bibliography on general education an attempt has been made to include only articles and materials: (1) reporting…

An overview is provided of "Rural AGE: Accessing Gerontological Education," a 3-year curriculum and faculty development project in Kansas aimed at transferring gerontological expertise and educational capacities from state universities to a consortium of seven rural community colleges. Introductory sections explain the purpose, background, and…

The annotated bibliography briefly describes information from printed sources which would be helpful to teachers and students of business English, particularly those involved with secretarial programs in two-year colleges. Each entry contains selected information of particular relevance to business English in the 1970's rather than an abstract of…

Based on information from professional organizations and individual colleges, this report examines strategies for strengthening the humanities within occupational curricula. The first part of the paper examines the fallacy in the belief that a philosophical antithesis exists between the humanities and other disciplines and discusses the decline of…

This manual has been written primarily for internet novices and for people already familiar with online communications who want to learn more about the growing array of electronic resources pertaining to Women's Studies and to transforming the curriculum so that it better reflects women's experience, accomplishments, and perspectives. Chapter 1…

This annotated bibliography covers documents and journal articles, dating from 1969, that have been announced in the ERIC system. The reports are organized into eleven categories: (a) General Discussions on Black Colleges and Students; (b) Federal Support to Black Colleges; (c) Admissions, Recruitment, and Student Financial Aid; (d) Administrative…