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Moreno-Lopez, Isabel; Saenz-de-Tejada, Cristina; Smith, Tami Kopischke – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
Preparing undergraduates and training faculty to succeed in a global society requires colleges to infuse international and intercultural dimensions into the curriculum. A Title VI grant funded the development and pilot of six Integrated Intensive Courses Abroad (IICA). These courses incorporate discipline-specific content studies with foreign…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Discipline, Language Proficiency, Study Abroad
Knight, Carol Lynn H. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1992
Suggests a process for incorporating critical thinking into social science courses. Explains preparatory steps (e.g., learning how to teach thinking and redesigning courses to include discipline-specific and core thinking skills). Recommends ways of reworking lectures, demonstrations, discussions, experiential learning, and assignments to address…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Course Content, Critical Thinking

Arons, Arnold B. – Liberal Education, 1985
Approaches to developing the college curriculum and teaching techniques to cultivate or enhance the student's capacity for abstract logical reasoning are discussed, and their implications for testing and faculty development are explored briefly. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum, Course Content
Chaffee, John – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1992
Describes La Guardia Community College's interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of critical thinking, focusing on the program's impact on literacy, reasoning, problem solving, and critical attitudes. Presents guidelines for integrating critical thinking. Discusses the importance of professional development to encourage curricular changes,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Course Content, Critical Thinking
Kroll, Claudia – 1988
Nursing curricula have been revised numerous times over the years in response to changes in the health care arena, as well as societal demands and political and economic forces. One of the most dynamic shifts in nursing education in the last 25 years is the shift in focus from the medical model to an integrated approach. Faculty in university…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Programs, Course Content
Paquette, William – 1989
New programs promoting global or international education have been started all over the country. At Tidewater Community College (TCC) in Virginia, efforts to add an international dimension to the curriculum began in 1988, when 20 faculty members from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, economics, mathematics, history, English, and business…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Course Content, Curriculum Enrichment
General Education and American Commitments. A National Report on Diversity Courses and Requirements.
Humphreys, Debra – 1997
This monograph reports on a study which examined how 92 colleges participating in a multiproject initiative, "American Commitments: Diversity, Democracy and Liberal Learning," are addressing issues of diversity in their general education curricula, policies, and practices. Chapter 1 focuses on emerging trends and promising practices, and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Curriculum, Colleges, Core Curriculum
Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC. – 1987
Thirty-six nontraditional undergraduate courses in linguistics are described. Course topics include: animal communication, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, introductory linguistics, language and formal reasoning, language and human conflict, language and power, language and sex, language and the brain, language planning, language typology and…
Descriptors: Animals, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, College Curriculum