Outlines a basic course designed to develop communication competencies in teachers. Provides a pragmatic approach to the development of instructional communication competencies in areas of interpersonal, small group, information dispensing, and instructional discussion communications. (MH)

Describes a project in which students work in teams to prepare an advertising campaign for a real client, who chooses the best campaign at the end of the semester. (FL)

Asks what can an advanced composition course offer its students that is both new and valuable to all of them despite the diversity of students' fields and career goals? Argues that job-related writing requires special attention to audience. Suggests ways to organize course content to develop audience awareness. (JG)

Presents a broad training format undertaken by a public jurisdiction for the successful development of performance standards. The three-hour course includes a lecture, a simulation exercise, and a discussion of the appraisal interview. (Author/CH)

Recommends the resourceful, well-planned utilization of carefully selected current news stories from sophisticated publications to enrich the content of remedial writing classes. Presents three sample cases in which news items become the basis for the exploration of major social and ethical concerns. (DMM)

This longitudinal study was designed to determine the priority placed on international health by public school curriculum leaders and if state departments of education curriculum guides were including information on goals, objectives, content, and activities focused on international health. (DF)

The University of Minnesota has developed an undergraduate International Health course to help students identify and compare health problems among diverse nations, explore various factors that influence world health, explain some of the difficulties encountered when attempting to assess the health status of a country, and relate the status of a…

Describes a course dealing with issues of institutional policy analysis which is the study of government reform and its consequences. Explains that the course is organized around three sets of choices: value choices, methodological choices, and institutional choices in which students question their own decision-making processes. (BSR)

Recounts weekend at a bee farm, an activity for a required Lehigh University freshman English composition course designed to facilitate socialization and exchange of ideas and to provide experiences for students to write about. Uses excerpts from journals of nine students. (NEC)

Described is a new course at the University of Auckland in the undergraduate behavioral science curriculum which attempts to prepare medical students for their responsibilities as key members of the health team. The course which uses self-directed learning is designed to teach third-year students about the skills and knowledge of other health…

In October 1984 the teaching of anatomy at Sheffield University Medical School was radically changed. Described are the background for the changes, aims, teaching methods, courses, support materials, student assessment, and course evaluation. (Author/RH)

Describes an innovative program that systematically exposes second-language learners to the phonetic elements of French, including prosodic features of the language. The first half of the 12 one-hour lessons introduces active listening exercises, delaying oral production until lesson seven. The program's goals and instructional units are included.…

Strategies and considerations for teaching culture to students at the intermediate level of college language study are discussed, and a study of the affective outcomes of cultural models designed specifically for this level is reported. (MSE)

Explains how media law and ethics courses can generate student involvement through the use of fictitious congressional representatives and hearings. (MM)