Describes a simulation game strategy that is used in an interdisciplinary course that focuses on the relationships between values and technology. Outlines the game's objectives, content focus, and procedural elements. Discusses the merits of this type of approach in assisting in the development of a personal philosophy toward technology. (ML)

The University Studies program at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, is described with regard to program objectives, staffing, admissions, advisement, requirements, and enrollment. The program offers an alternative to meeting general education requirements. While it focuses on contemporary issues of value and choice, it is suitable for all…

A syllabus for the "Health and Humanities" interdisciplinary course at Northwestern State University, Louisiana, is presented. An introduction suggests that with the proliferation of technological advances in the field of health care, there is a need for reconsideration of many moral, ethical, legal, and humanistic questions. Information…

A new core curriculum at Newmann College (Pennsylvania) aims to provide liberal learning through cross-disciplinary instruction without destroying the identity of specific content areas. The Collaborative Probing Model (CPM) provides a basis for the kind of creative self-control that will lead to flexible work within and between disciplines. This…

A transcript of a two-member panel discussion on changing values and higher education is presented. The transcript includes two speeches and members' responses to the questions of the moderator and audience. The first paper, presented by Robert Beagle (Assistant to the President, Edinboro State College, Pennsylvania) stresses that the key to…

Examines student values and process-based, constructivist courses in environmental education. Results suggest that most education majors hold pro-environmental values but frequently do not act upon them. Argues that, to remove this inconsistency between values and practice, courses in environmental education and education for sustainability should…

Describes a program called "Work and Work Places," designed to help students discover historical, ethical, and artistic perspectives of career options. The series of speakers and site visits examines the meaning of work in women's lives and society as a whole from a multidisciplinary approach. (JAC)

Describes a college-level course that uses classic texts, such as Plato's "The Republic" and Thomas More's "Utopia," to consider concepts related to the "good society." Expands this initial approach to include consideration of a postmodernist perspective. This perspective encourages consideration of texts and ideas…

An interdisciplinary futures program was established as part of the core curriculum at Davis and Elkins College to prepare students for the variety of personal and social changes they are likely to experience during their lifetimes. Courses in the program are taught sequentially during each of the undergraduate years. At the freshmen, sophomore,…

Continues an article that began in the summer 1995 "Interdisciplinary Humanities." Examines ethical concerns about nuclear power, societal control, and prejudice articulated in science fiction literature. Authors studied include Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Damon Knight. The earlier article covered literature concerned with ecology…

Described is the course content for a class on AIDS. The class focused on outreach, education, information and learning compassion toward people afflicted with the disease. A list of videos and films used in the course is included. (KR)

This document describes an elementary teacher education program (TEP) for training elementary school teachers to include the environment in the content and methods of the early years of education. The major focus of this document is to infuse environmental content and methods in existing or planned courses of instruction in the TEP. The topics in…