A plan to evaluate a college-orientation course required of new freshmen at Mt. San Antonio College was developed. It was designed to help students adjust to college, evaluate their interests and abilities, determine realistic vocational goals, and develop effective educational plans. Opportunities for close personal relationships between students…

The project of developing, demonstrating, and evaluating a systems approach for general college chemistry, general psychology, and developmental English was undertaken by Meramec Community College (Missouri). This report includes a chapter on the project philosophy, which hypothesizes that the maximization of instructional methods increases the…

Instructors from 14 South Carolina two-year institutions participated in a pilot project to restructure and standardize a course in Human Relations offered at each college. The current status and objectives of the course were analyzed, modules were developed, and a model of participation was recommended to facilitate continual statewide course…

The Texas Real Estate Research Center-Texas Education Agency (TRERC-TEA) curriculum workshop was attended by over 40 participants representing 26 Texas community colleges. These participants divided into eight small groups by real estate specialty area and developed curriculum outlines and learning objectives for the following real estate courses:…

THE "JUNIOR COLLEGE CURRICULUM" COURSE AT UCLA IS DESIGNED AS A PART OF THE STUDIES BASIC TO A DOCTORAL PROGRAM AND AS PREPARATION FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE TEACHING. STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO LEARN (1) TO BUILD AND SUPERVISE COURSES WHICH FIT INTO THE TOTAL CURRICULAR PATTERN OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE, AND (2) TO TRANSLATE THEIR COURSES TO THEIR…

Drawing from recent literature and research, this paper provides an overview of the place of statistics in the two-year college curriculum. First, sources are cited in evidence of the strong support among educators for statistics as one of the most useful topics that can be taught. Next, research findings are presented showing that statistics…

IN 1965, IT WAS DECIDED THAT ALL COURSES AT THE COLLEGE SHOULD BE PLANNED IN ORDER TO CREATE HIGH QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AND RESPECTABILITY. THIS MANUAL OUTLINES THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PLANNING IS TO BE DONE. COURSE OBJECTIVES ARE TO BE STATED IN A TEACHER-ORIENTED FORM AND IN A STUDENT-ORIENTED FORM. THE TEACHER'S DOCUMENT WILL IDENTIFY…

Designed to assist California community college personnel in implementing 1986 regulations concerning associate degree requirements, this paper analyzes the key terms in the new policy, "college level" and "critical thinking," and discusses practical implications for assessment, curriculum, and instruction. First, the paper…

The taxonomy of the functions of dental x-ray technologists presented in this report resulted from a dental radiography curriculum development project undertaken at Middlesex County College (MCC) in 1981. After an introductory section citing arguments for creating taxonomies of objectives, the report explains the impetus for the curriculum…

Although standard courses in psychology are offered each academic year at New Jersey's Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC), the psychology of women and gender has yet to be incorporated into the curriculum. The psychology of women developed with the emergence of the second wave of feminism, beginning with a critical analysis of psychology's…

A description is provided of the development of a course in business communication for office administration majors at Evergreen Valley College (EVC) in California. The steps involved in the development of the course are explained, including: (1) a review of the educational and business literature on business communication; (2) a review of current…

Two schools of thought exist with regard to the goals of humanities instruction. The "university orientation" places an emphasis upon impersonal, intellectual, and purely academic objectives. The "liberal arts orientation" maintains that humanities instruction should contribute to the beliefs, values, expectations, attitudes, fears, emotions, and…

In order to develop a model human development course for the community college, attitudinal and factual information was obtained from 120 practitioners at colleges identified as having operational human development instruction programs. The questionnaire allowed the group to react to a series of 86 items representative of HD courses'…

The lack of agreement among professionals on the objectives or content appropriate for courses about the mass media prompted the development, validation, and ranking of a collection of behavioral objectives for instruction about mass communications. Following the initial steps in Ralph Tyler's "rationale" for curriculum development, a pool of 120…

A description is provided of the development of "The History of the Modern World," a one-semester course offered at Bronx Community College (BCC), which was designed to survey the major aspects of the significant events that are part of the political, economic, social and cultural heritage that have shaped the course of world history since 1850.…