Reviews "Atari Speed Reading" course materials (which include eight units on four cassettes, 200-page workbook, and cassette with pacer/timer program). Indicates that the course is successful in meeting its goal to help average readers double their reading speed and comprehension. (JN)

One lemon, an assortment of other fruits and vegetables, a tennis ball, and a Galvanic Skin Response meter are needed to implement this approach to teaching about classical conditioning in introductory psychology courses. (RM)

Outlines an introductory computer literacy course that focuses on the business data processing cluster. The course provides a general understanding of data processing history, applications, equipment, systems, people, and procedures. (SK)

Describes an experiment at Hamline University, Minnesota, in which a course on "American Metropolitan Government and Problems" was paired with a "History of London" course to stimulate the study of values in a cross-disciplinary context. Course logistics, teaching methods, student assignments and problems in administration, and obtaining materials…

Outlines advantages and disadvantages of a history of postwar geographical thought course, focusing on student-led interviews of geography staff. Students examine geographical career of a lecturer, discuss courses s/he has taken, character of departments s/he has experienced, his/her awareness at different stages of philosophical and…

Summarizes changes in paleoecology during the past few years (focusing on those influencing the way the subject is taught) and changes in the concept of what paleoecology is (focusing on the impact of the changing concepts on course content). Includes predictions about the future of paleoecological studies. (JN)

Discusses the process design sequence at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, including course content, student assignments, textbooks used, and student projects. Author (now in industry) indicates that he sees the sequence differently than when he taught it. (JN)

Examines a psychology course intended to teach graduate students how to develop and run groups for training in helping skills, human relations, assertion training, weight reduction, and anxiety management. (DB)

Two dance games are described for use in the classroom. (JMF)

Describes the development and implementation of a Buchanan-type microeconomics course for first-year students in a Master of Business Administration program. The course is based on the recommendation of economist James Buchanan that economics should once again place its teaching emphasis on the various institutional arrangements that arise as a…

Describes the organization of a writing workshop for women, and the characteristics unique to a group of women students that made the course successful. (HTH)

Discusses economics as a mechanistic theory and the systems approach as a functionalist theory. Relevant literature is reviewed and a synthesis of the two types of theories is presented. (Author/DB)

Describes a one-semester course on modern German civilization given at St. Bonaventure University and open to both German majors and others interested in fulfilling general education requirements. Discusses course's topics which include political, social, and economic issues; artistic achievements; and a contrastive analysis of German and American…

Describes a course in mass communication that prepares media producers as media consumers. Discusses the use of simulation as a teaching strategy in such a course. (RL)

Describes an insurance company's development of an assertiveness training course for managers, supervisors, and clerical staff. (CSS)