The Administrative Medicine Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed a course entitled "Medicine and the Media" for clinician-executives and health care professionals who may assume administrative responsibilities. The course is designed to help students (1) understand the respective roles and demands of both the…

A pedagogy appropriate to college level courses and comprised of interdisciplinary content, multidisciplinary faculty, and students from diverse academic backgrounds and with varying levels of skills merits development. A taxonomy of some of the difficulties in the construction of such a course in Mexican American studies, for example, focuses on…

This booklet describes selected and diverse ideas and recommendations that were presented at a conference. Scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, literature, and education examined a number of practices and problems that are central to the provision of moral education and the development of good character.…

Prepared as an effort to involve all high school subject areas in an interdisciplinary Bicentennial celebration, this booklet offers brief descriptions of ideas for projects, displays, lectures, programs, and classroom activities. Information and suggestions for developing and establishing a climate for learning and celebration and for specific…

The course syllabus is provided for Whatcom Community College's 10-week interdisciplinary course, "The Evolution of Contemporary Values." Materials presented for the first week of instruction include the course outline; the course objective (i.e., to examine the nature and origins of a number of value systems in the contemporary United States via…

Although the American studies movement has gained widespread popularity within its 50 years of existence, it is still devoid of any controlling assumptions, models, and coherence. The intellectual disarray which has recently characterized the movement has encouraged one group of scholars, the "reflexionists," to examine the causes of that…

The global education curriculum presented in this booklet is offered as a model, of integrated, interdisciplinary English studies, that involves participants in cultural, scientific, ecological, and economic issues while promoting student awareness of the nature and development of world literature, languages, the arts, and their…

A proposed interdisciplinary course linking the areas of English and data processing is described in this paper. Expertise in both fields is perceived as a function of the processes of defining, recreating metaphors and models, locating assumptions within messages, and becoming aware of meaning. Potential enrollees include both students in the…

The development of a population studies program is described. Questions indicating the content of the program are listed; these relate to human population, human needs, the environment, and problems raised by the interrelationships of these factors. Preparation of materials was undertaken by curriculum specialists in natural sciences and social…

This brief paper discusses in some detail several recent studies of electrical-electronics curricula at the junior college level and presents a 22-item bibliography of studies in this area. Comments based on the findings of the studies include: (1) A method of instruction, particulary applicable to the field of electronics education, seems to be…

Explores ways in which an expository writing class can encompass training in both professional writing and in the humanities. Presents a writing assignment that combines research in the humanities with writing for decision makers. (HTH)

A Duquesne course integrating biochemistry lectures, clinical applications lectures, and laboratory sessions has the objectives of (1) making the course more relevant to students' perceived needs; (2) enhancing the learning process; (3) introducing clinical applications early in the students' program; and (4) demonstrating additional…

Reports on a joint training program by communication and psychiatry departments to (1) strengthen instruction in interpersonal skills for medical students; (2) offer graduate students in communication the opportunity to develop skills as instructors and researchers; and (3) emphasize the usefulness of communication specialists to faculty and…

Describes a cooperative approach between teacher education and communication departments at Miami University, Ohio, to produce a field-based communication course for prospective teachers. Covers course content and organization. (PD)

Proposes that the study of the short story should have a prominent place in any high school English curriculum. Provides suggestions for such a course. (RL)