This article describes a preservice program that promotes the utilization of the creative arts to enhance the learning of young children with disabilities. It highlights the benefits of co-teaching across disciplines and the value of creativity in early childhood special education. The curriculum and the students' fieldwork are described.…

Discusses the changes in the University of Connecticut's Proseminar in Latin American and Caribbean Studies graduate course that focused on: (1) interdisciplinary faculty participation; (2) a workshop model emphasizing development of fundamental skills; and (3) training in the use of research resources. Evaluates the course and highlights areas…

Argues that recent events have made poetry more relevant to teaching sociology and discusses the benefits of using poetry in the sociology classroom. Provides three examples to illustrate the use of poetry as an instructional technique in a social inequality course. (CMK)

The arts become a form of resistance, providing educators with a tool to resist mechanical and oppressive school experiences and cultivate a personal voice among children. Two professors on opposite coasts joined forces to design a course for pre- and inservice elementary school teachers. This article describes the course and discusses it's…

Presents a course on gender, race, and class developed at a White, midwestern university. Describes critical theory objectives through which students learn to analyze racism, sexism, and classism, and construct a model based on their analysis. Includes class assignments, projects, and activities. (NL)

This description of course objectives, content, students, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary social welfare course concludes that teaching social welfare in a comparative cross-national framework contributes to instilling an understanding of key social welfare concepts, programs, and issues. (JT)

Perspectives on the need for retailoring science education so that college graduates will be better prepared to make decisions about scientific, technological priorities and personal career options are presented in this paper. The values and problems associated with an interdisciplinary approach to science education are discussed and a new…

If students are first taught writing as experience, then become aware of the intellectual and imaginative operations they use to shape that experience, they will be better able to manage the thinking and writing tasks of the various academic disciplines and of the world of work. This is the purpose of a proposed upper-level writing course that…

Writing across the curriculum involves helping students to learn how to learn by using appropriate parts of the writing process, to understand that certain standards are important if they are to be considered educated, and to ascertain that writing and learning involve similar procedures and methods. At Sinclair Community College, a writing across…

This paper describes a thematically organized interdisciplinary reading course, offers a rationale for including literature in a reading curriculum, and outlines an approach for presenting the short story in the context of a thematic interdisciplinary college reading course. It concludes with a brief discussion of two short stories and provides…

This report on a curriculum project incorporating the study of the humanities and mass media is presented in four chapters. The first chapter is an overview and describes the three components of the curriculum project: (1) a new course entitled "Television as Popular Culture," (2) a team-taught course on media theory entitled "The Electric Media,"…

A one-year general education course entitled "Man and Environment" has been developed at Miami-Dade Junior College, Florida. Basic framework for the course was built on the premise that an interdisciplinary, module-structured course represents one of the better approaches to planning environmental education curriculum. Material for the…

At the German Department of the University of South Carolina, courses of literature in translation and general cultural courses were open to all students of the university to offset low foreign language enrollments. The content, design and evaluation of these courses is presented. Films were extensively used as a medium of instruction. (TL)

Outlines the content of this interdisciplinary course and includes a list of the texts being used. Parts one and two are concerned with the biology of the whale and other marine mammals, while part three covers the whaling industry and related topics. (MA)

Results of a survey of social science programs at San Francisco Bay area community colleges, covering extent of communication between two- and four-year institutions, physical setting of instruction, departmental structures, course offerings, and utilization and background of faculty. (RT)