Describes a college-level social science course which deals with social systems in a way that is meaningful to students, affectively-oriented, interdisciplinary, and supportive of class participation. (Author/DB)

In an experiment on the effects of video in teaching international relations, two classes were given video stimuli related to the Soviet Union and one class was given none. Findings indicate that exposure to video stimulus produced strong attitude change toward the Soviet Union and ability to understand and express Soviet perspectives. (Author/DB)