Describes a production-oriented course designed to give students experience in writing for film and knowledge of screenwriting techniques and film planning activities. (PD)

Provides ideas for using community studies to acquaint students with American history and to help them develop an appreciation of the uniqueness of their own community and the importance of the role that a locality can play within the nation. Lists seven student learning activities and presents suggestions for researching local history. (KH)

Provides format and content for a 40-hour seminar on teacher effectiveness. (PD)

Describes an exercise in which students select an article or program pertaining to a problem or issue in their field and write a "letter to the editor," which is then critiqued in class. Illustrates how the exercise supports adult learning principles. (SK)

Describes a course in which technical writing students write letters to themselves stating goals they want to accomplish within the next 10 years, which the teacher promises not to read and to mail to them in exactly 10 years. Discusses purposes and actual results of assignment. (EL)

Describes a course that documents in often laborious and relatively uncritical detail the history of the Canadian press and its American and British antecedents. Describes a course on the contemporary press consisting of various forms of press criticism. (HTH)

Describes a seminar offered at the University of Victoria for students who have taken arts or science degrees rather than degrees in education. Presents key activities used in the seminar, which is designed to provide students with classroom "survival skills." (FL)

Strategies that may be useful in helping undergraduates develop a critical view of sport are presented in this article. Several ethical problems that may arise from teaching sociology of sport in a way that contradicts typical assumptions about sport are discussed. (Author/DF)

The author discusses the mathematics background of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) students and asks what math tools are necessary for an MBA. While she finds useful the ability to deal with linear and quadratic equations; interest, depreciation, and growth rates; and word problems, she concludes that calculus is of little use apart from…

Describes a public relations writing course on how to write the PSA (public service announcement). (PD)

Presents a structure for a film and video production course, with emphasis on three types of literacy: visual, verbal, and technical. (HTH)

Describes an integrated approach to teaching broad-based theatre skills, including script analysis, research, design, directing, and acting. (PD)

Argues that technical writing should be limited to the study and teaching of pragmatic conventions relevant to actual technical communication situations. Specifically examines whether proposal writing should be included in technical writing instruction, and the place of empirical research as criteria for determining relevant conventions. (HTH)

Interpretations of culture and land relationships are considered. A more limited definition of culture necessitates a more restricted course content for cultural geography. (RM)

Various approaches to curriculum design and issues related to constructing course syllabi are discussed. (SD)