Graduate and professional schools are increasingly using short-term international study abroad courses as one way for internationalizing their curriculum. While international service learning can be a means for improving students' engagement in international learning experiences and providing a structure for learning, it is difficult to design…

Describes both the content of a domestic violence teaching program and the process used to integrate the program into the curriculum at MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Quantitative and qualitative date from a three-year period indicate that the program has been successfully integrated, is effective, and satisfies students. (EV)

The reorganization of an undergraduate history curriculum from a semester system into a series of three and one-half week courses is described. (DE)

Provides details of a mini-course, developed in cooperation with the school's study skills center, that is the essential feature of a program designed to help students in the business communication curriculum improve their writing skills. (RL)

This directory provides information on summer programs abroad from 1 week to several months in length and short courses of varying lengths in the fall, winter, or spring. Approximately 60 percent of the programs are sponsored by U.S. accredited colleges and universities; the others are offered by foreign universities, language schools, and other…

The establishment of a minicourse of four three-hour sessions devoted to the examination and debate of selected ethical issues at Queen's University is described. Students chose topics for discussion and organized debates between faculty and community members. (Author/MLW)

Reports on an undergraduate earth science course for non-science majors structured around five-week minicourses. Evaluates student and teacher response to the program. (CP)

Participants in a nationwide summer program of minicourses for adults over 60, called Elderhostel, live on campus and choose from at least three one-week courses taught by regular faculty. There are no exams, credits or grades. The logistics of the program and financial costs and problems are discussed. (JMD)

Examines activities and achievements of the Learning Center at Mid-America Nazarene College, Kansas. Lists standard services, emphasizing tutoring and minisessions in math, writing, and study skills. Outlines outreach services including supplementary course instruction, cognitive learning styles assessment, faculty assistance, and text readability…

Preliminary results are reported for courses in college algebra and trigonometry based on the Postlethwait audio-tutorial minicourse system which were developed at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne (IPFW). Two IPFW faculty members, two secondary teachers, and two undergraduate mathematics majors formed a minicourse project team…

The first year of California State University's program to improve university students' critical reading of introductory texts had two objectives: to develop professors' available repertoire of strategies for guiding students' independent learning from texts and to develop students' facility in learning from texts with adjunct guide materials…

An inservice mini course training program at Jackson State University was designed to prepare educational personnel for teaching mainstreamed handicapped children as mandated by Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act). The mini course approach was selected as it is of short duration and is widely preferred by teachers. Among…

A year-long interdisciplinary project sought to develop professors' available repertoire of strategies for guiding students' independent learning from texts and developing students' ability to learn from texts with adjunct guide materials in a minicourse setting. Adjunct materials included such instructor devised aids as study questions, graphic…

The role of colleges in providing lifelong education for alumni is considered. The book traces 75 years of alumni continuing education, with special attention to the years between 1956 and 1966, the beginning of the modern alumni continuing education era. Guidelines are offered for organizing and planning an alumni lifelong education program, and…

The Slavonic Studies Seminar is held for one month each summer at Kliment Okhridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria. The program consists of three weeks of Bulgarian language instruction and a one-week trip around Bulgaria through interesting medieval towns, monasteries, and coastal resorts. The participants are primarily college teachers,…