Efforts at a Czechoslovakian university to prepare undergraduate and graduate students to think creatively by integrating cultural education with the sciences in the general curriculum are described. The program, which also targets gifted students, is mandated by a 1980 law. (MSE)

The belief that students aren't sufficiently involved in their education is one reason for the surge of interest in undergraduate research. Research programs can be important tools for recruiting students. The program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is described. (MLW)

How student journals were used in a college-level sex/gender sociology course to facilitate student learning through writing is described. Students are required to formulate journal entries based on an issue or question that they raise for themselves. Learning occurs as students make connections in developing answers to their own questions.…

Notes that one-semester field methods courses in sociology often lack adequate time for students to learn appropriate techniques and still collect and report their data. Describes how undergraduate students bypass this problem by using multiple observations of a single event to quickly form a corpus of ethnographic data. (JDH)

Describes how sociology students in undergraduate research methods are involved in conducting an annual poll for the university. The emphasis is upon interviewing as a general data-gathering method. Includes information about how useful research problems are determined and the process used to design and implement the poll. (JDH)

Lists alphabetically the definitions of key organic-based terms used in characterizing the structure of polymers. Includes several common polymers, some of their uses and their respective structures. (CW)

The tuition and fees charged undergraduates at more than 2,700 colleges and universities in the 1987-88 and 1988-89 academic years, including the additional tuition that many institutions charge out-of-state students are listed. The figures were collected by the College Board in its Annual Survey of Colleges. (MLW)

The undergraduate curriculum must consider international and intercultural implications. The study of other cultures must be part of a liberal education, and graduates must have the skills and information to be informed citizen-workers in a world community. (MLW)

Provides information appropriate for introductory lectures on photoelectric effects in membranes. Describes the apparatus and supplies required for laboratory exercises. Outlines typical laboratory exercises. Identifies the chromophores known to induce photoelectric effects. Concludes that this topic can provide useful subjects for undergraduate…

A combined B.S.-M.D. program designed to provide family practitioners to northwest Pennsylvania is described. The impact of the program on the region goes beyond the number of physicians supplied. Gannon University attracts high-quality students, and Erie hospitals benefit from affiliation with the medical school at Hahnemann University.…

Described is a computer simulation that was used to help general education students enrolled in a large introductory geology course. The purpose of the simulation is to learn to interpret incomplete data. Students design a plan to collect bathymetric data for an area of the ocean. Procedures used by the students and instructor are included.…

The continuum is analyzed in terms of educational quality through competence outcomes in bachelor's of social work (BSW) programs and of implications for master's (MSW) programs. Focus is on the question of how particular interpretations of the continuum concept could affect these competence outcomes. (Author/MH)

Presents data collected from national random samples of administrators and from faculty members in selected colleges and universities showing problems in the undergraduate curriculum (e.g., lack of accommodation for student differences; rarity of systematic curriculum evaluations; and lack of the time, consultants, knowledge base and funding for…

A study of the relationship between major, socioeconomic status, and gender in the undergraduate achievement of college students in England and Wales is reported, and the implications for educational policy-making and research on group differences are discussed. (Author/MSE)

Describes two complementary laboratory exercises that use the glass fiber assay to assess receptor specificity and hormone binding affinity in rat liver cytoplasmic extracts. Details the methods, materials and protocol of the experiments. Discusses the basic concepts illustrated and the feasibility of using the experiments at the undergraduate…