Reports on the development of communication studies, particularly business communication, in the Australian community college context. (RL)

A university snow skiing course has three instructional and informational components: skiing equipment; skiing safety; and skiing skills. Seventy percent of class time is composed of actual practice on the ski slopes. (CJ)

The many difficulties involved in teaching the sciences have led to their conspicuous underrepresentation in adult education programs. Several approaches are suggested to make the physical sciences more accessible to adult students. (Author/SK)

Outlines the content and activities of a three-unit, ten-week minicourse for junior high school students on architectural awareness. (SJL)

A report is given on the activities of physical education majors at the 1979 convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. (JD)

Considers the particular elements that would be included in a proposed course in semantics for education students. (RL)

The American Heart Association's Heartsaver Program, including instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills, has been integrated into the basic Personal Health and Safety course at the University of Arkansas. An outline of the course content is provided. (JMF)

Addresses problems of declining enrollments and abolition of history requirements at the college level. Proposes restructuring of the traditional survey courses. (KC)

The content of the basic course differs depending on whether the school offers an information systems curriculum or multiple systems courses or it offers only one course or the student chooses to take only one course. (Author/IRT)

To determine the dominant topic areas of political science urbanists, questionnaires were sent to a sample of 119 college professors. Urban politics faculty have retained their concern for topics not currently fashionable in research, such as local government institutions, the pluralist-elitist controversy, urban ethnicity, and metro government.…

Analyzes the proportion of journalism theory courses to institutional and methodological courses in 103 undergraduate schools and departments of journalism. (KS)

The article concerning the mini-course program in Iron Mountain (EJ 067 651) has prompted the author, a principal at a middle school, to relate the experiences of Mount Vernon, Iowa in the same area. (Author/RK)

Issues related to elder abuse and neglect should be systematically addressed in nursing curricula, including ways to identify abuse at the macro, mezzo, and micro levels and the inclusion of the views of elders in the educational process. (SK)

This article evaluates the pros and cons of allowing a student to use a computer for assessed statistics coursework. Four frequently raised objections to using computers are stated and then followed by an examination of both the learning issues and the assessment issues. (AIM)

Of participants in forest stewardship workshops; 63 controls were surveyed upon arrival, a second group (n=77) after viewing slides, and a third (n=56) after slides and field demonstrations. Knowledge increases were higher for the second group than for controls and highest for slide/demo group. Only the latter indicated acceptance of the…