In a national climate of moving the media research course from the undergraduate to graduate levels, this paper analyzes an innovative, easily replicative, and significantly successful new modality--implemented at an open-enrollment university in the Deep South--that may point the way to prevent termination of this essential course to…

This paper reports on research and consultative processes related to design of a course in knowledge management (KM) undertaken by the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University (Australia). A survey instrument was distributed to practitioners in the library, information management, records management, and computing…

This study was undertaken by the investigator with the belief that there is, at the present, an urgent need for a course in creativity for pre-service and in-service teachers. (Author/RK)

On the basis of the parameters measured in this study, students completing a curriculum in medical technology with a shortened clinical laboratory phase plus structured courses in basic clinical science performed as well in an employment situation as students completing a curriculum with a full year of clinical laboratory experience. (Author)

Presents examples of consumer education courses in schools in the United States. (PG)

Discusses the curriculum of "Introduction to Genetics" of the Unitversity of Freiburg, West Germany. (DD)

Critical discussion of course objectives of English taught as a second language with reference to Konrad Schroder's Englisch als Schulfach'' (English as an Academic Subject), Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, v24 p144-152, and Helmut Schwartz's Noch einmal: Englisch als Schulfach'' (Once Again: English as an Academic Course), Neusprachliche…

Suggests basic mathematical requirements on the General Certificate of Education A level in an effort to improve student inability of using mathematical skills in learning sixth form physics and subsequent advanced courses. Indicates that conformity with new styles of mathematics teaching is preferable in curriculum formulation. (CC)

The author develops a rationale for teaching about the non-West in the social studies curriculum in public schools. Suggestions are made concerning curriculum development and teaching methods. (SM)

Students in the course described are introduced early to the rudiments of historical methods, critical discrimination, and library resources. (Editor)

To greater appreciate Haiku and the Japanese people and culture, this teacher inaugurated the writing of American Haiku'' into the course requirements. (Author/PG)

Discusses the characteristics, especially the commonalities, of four innovative educational methods: audio-tutorial systems, guided design, programed instruction, and the Keller method. Indicates that content materials still play the major role in student learning at present. (CC)