Weaver Award winning speech communication instructor Craig Streff believes the most important goals of his interpersonal communication instruction are a strong cognitive and affective base, without which practical interpersonal skills are not likely to be developed. Given this overview, what he considers to be the most significant points of the…

A faculty member involved with the HELDS (Higher Education for Learning Disabled Students) project describes ways in which Psychology of Adjustment courses can be modified to accommodate LD students. He describes the goals and general approach (structured informality) of his class, which features group evening meetings and written assignments in…

A history professor describes his involvement with project HELDS (Higher Education for Learning Disabled Students) and discusses ways in which he accommodates LD students in his classes. Among the general techniques advocated are taping, use of analogies to help the students understand concepts, and emphasis on context of events within time…

Implications of the HELDS (Higher Education for Learning Disabled Students) project for college health education are considered. The importance of a course syllabus is noted, and suggestions are given for identifying LD students. A sample lesson plan is presented with eight activities on the topic of wholistic health. The article concludes with a…

A professor involved with the HELDS project (Higher Education for Learning Disabled Students) discusses ways to modify instruction to accommodate students' spelling difficulties. Among methods cited are using chalkboards and quizzes to help students learn, re-explaining or presenting new concepts by using other kinds of formats or diagrams,…

Three regional workshops held by the Alabama Center for Higher Education to sensitize minority professionals to the severely involved population and to encourage participation of minority professionals in the developmental disabilities service system are described. Background information on P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children…

Questions the content, procedures, and the organization of bibliography courses, and explores the assumptions behind the current structure of such courses. (RB)

Defines and describes vocational journalism, a new subject in New York City Public Schools, and explains how it differs from traditional journalism and English courses offered in the high schools. (RB)

This study investigated whether a university course on psychopathology has the effect of sensitizing individuals to their own unrecognized or unimagined symptomatology. (RC)

This article presents in concrete detail a complete description of the ideal full journalism curriculum. It starts with a competent instructor, says this writer, who was named Journalism Teacher of the Year in 1972 by the Newspaper Fund, Inc. (Editor)

Argues that general semantics courses should be taught in high school and outlines the content that should be emphasized in such a course. (RB)

Argues for teaching journalism to the non-journalist and suggests areas which might be included in general courses on journalism for students who might have limited educational exposure to press problems. (RB)

Methods for teaching the ethics of psychological research to students were surveyed by a committee of the American Psychological Association (The Committee for the Protection of Human Participants in Research). A survey of department chairpersons was conducted to determine how many departments had formal courses on ethical issues. The majority of…

"Ancient Egypt," an upper-division, non-required history course covering Egypt from pre-dynastic time through the Roman domination is described. General descriptive information is presented first, including the method of grading, expectation of student success rate, long-range course objectives, procedures for revising the course, major…