The advent of relatively inexpensive 360-degree cameras and virtual reality (VR) headsets brings new possibilities to the study of religion by allowing students to become virtually immersed in distant religious environments at very little cost. These tools can serve as the basis for assignments that help to engage students and meet core learning…

This article describes practical steps taken in the planning of an integrated information literacy instruction linked to a course assignment for community health majors at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. The library sessions integrated the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information…

Interdisciplinary field study courses at 2-year colleges can provide an opportunity to enhance student learning. The authors present here an 11-day interdisciplinary field-study course designed for nonscience majors at a 2-year college. Using a theoretical learning framework that emphasizes cognitive and metacognitive gains, the field study…

Describes the organization of a writing workshop for women, and the characteristics unique to a group of women students that made the course successful. (HTH)

Discusses the pervasiveness of computers in the world of work and the increasing need for students and teachers to be computer-literate. Describes Spokane Falls Community College's hands-on course, "Desktop Computers," designed to meet the needs of local business by teaching students to use computers and overcome computer phobia. (AYC)

In light of research on diversity learning and teaching, this article describes how an introductory course on cinematic depictions of African Americans taught at a predominately white, rural university campus leads students to see the impact of history and Hollywood on their own local and statewide communities. Like others who teach courses on…

Describes the development and offerings of North Shore Community College's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, which uses a variety of organizational and methodological strategies including team-teaching, multi-discipline courses with one instructor, thematic courses, and discipline combinations. Describes the 15 courses in the curriculum and…

Describes a course on fantasy which included studies of fairy tales, "Alice in Wonderland," and "The Hobbit," and a dramatization of "Through the Looking Glass." (MKM)

Presents a Holocaust literature class that brings new voices to the community college literature curriculum. Describes a course that involves reading five survivors' autobiographies, hearing four survivor speakers, one of whom was one of the authors, and hearing a speaker who had researched the murder and victimization of her family during the…

Argues that teachers and students must take an active and balanced part in learning. Describes the application of this philosophy of "shared responsibility" in a psychology course at Los Angeles City College. (AYC)

Describes a course in the first-year college composition sequence (with substantial research and argumentation components) that is organized around a career focus on social services practice. Describes how the students learn about connections between writing, thinking, problem solving, composition class, and their chosen profession. (SR)

Describes a community-college-level developmental reading skills course that was revised to decrease the number of skills in which students needed to show competency to make room for a notetaking skills unit. (RS)

The Computerized Information Service for Nursing Educators (CISNE) is a computerized information system designed to help nursing instructors exchange ideas in an attempt to improve teaching methods. The system, which is under development, will assist nursing educators by performing eight functions: (1) coding courses for instant input and…

This paper provides a brief overview of Oakton Community College's (OCC) cluster organization, which is believed to foster offering of true interdisciplinary education. OCC is organized into four learning clusters, each of 30 full-time and 40 part-time faculty, 1,500 students, and headed by a dean. Each cluster is semi-autonomous; authority is…

Presents a teaching model that approaches sociology from an evolutionary perspective, maintaining that human societies are part of the natural world and their evolutionary dynamics are similar to other biological systems. Outlines the advantages of and student responses to the course design and approach. (DMM)