If degrees are interdisciplinary, minimal conditions concerning course structure, content and academic organization have to be met for them to be successful. Course descriptions are included in the appendix. (Author/PG)

Article described a music program designed to develop individual learning skills, involvement, appreciation, and enjoyment of both music and literature for children of all ages. (Author/RK)

The new Master of Environmental Science degree program at Miami University is interdisciplinary in approach and problem solving in methodology. The training program consists of interdisciplinary core courses designed to develop the problem solving process, and of courses in an area of specialization. The program is considered a success. (MA)

A CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM (SSEC) TO PROVIDE AN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS ABOUT APPROACHES TAKEN TO SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTENT IN NEW CURRICULUMS. THE CONFERENCE WAS PLANNED IN THE HOPE THAT SUCH AN EXCHANGE WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE GROWING AMOUNT OF ACADEMICALLY BASED CURRICULUM WORK IN…

This narrative report on the development phase of the Program on Man, Technology, and Society (MTS), which was established at Saint Louis University in 1974 with the aid of a 5-year curriculum development grant, provides an overview of the original plan and a survey of the program as now established, with an analysis of the extent to which MTS, as…

Presented are two sections dealing with the model: (1) Orientation; and (2) Content Specifications. The goal of the document is to characterize and integrate the systems complex of environmental education and teacher training. The document is intended as an orienting instrument for curriculum or program developers. Desired outcomes of this model…

The development of a nutrition curriculum to be integrated in other subjects in the elementary schools is discussed. The planned curriculum is intended to be developed in such a way that nutrition concepts can be introduced in the context of established subject matter areas such as reading, mathematics, social studies, and health. The concepts…

This is a critical account of the introduction of a new science curriculum in New South Wales, Australia. The introduction of the new courses is contrasted with methods used to update science courses in other countries and in other Australian States. Reactions from teachers, students, and the public are reported. Statements by the curriculum…

The Hudson River Museum's Environmental Arts and Science Division has published this booklet describing their model educational program, "TETE: Total Education in the Total Environment," a multidisciplinary approach to environmental education utilizing existing curricula. For conducting the program model communities strategically located along the…

Project TETE (Total Education in the Total Environment, a multidisciplinary approach to environmental education utilizing existing curricula, is described in this booklet. It is a community-wide strategy to enable all members of the community to discover the connecting processes which fashion the total environment, stressing that every community…

"Interdisciplinarity," the integration of concepts and methods between disciplines in teaching and research, may provide an important key to the innovations required in universities to meet the intellectual and social demands of the present time. This report is based on a seminar held in September 1970 and reports the subsequent reflections of a…

The director of curriculum development at Maharishi International University describes background and design of the program based on the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) as a unifying theoretical structure and on transcendental meditation (TM) for expanding awareness and utilizing videotape technology in its core curriculum courses. (JT)

The energy crisis is a topic with which teachers can incorporate economic, social, and political concepts into the social studies curriculum. Describes energy education materials prepared by the National Science Teachers Association which emphasize background information for teachers, knowledge and skill development for students, and use of local…