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…

Questionnaires designed to tap misconceptions of the content of psychology courses can serve as pedagogical devices useful for introducing students to topics and for evaluating student learning. The topic of sleep and dreams is of particular interest to students. To develop a useful introductory tool and to evaluate students' knowledge of sleep,…

At Florida State University in Tallahassee, 30 students a year are enrolled in the public relations major, beginning with the junior year, so that at any one time there are approximately 60 majors, all of whom have at least a B average. The basic course--PUR 3000, Introduction to Public Relations--enrolls over 150 students a semester in two…

This paper points out that creationists have developed a skill unique to their trade, namely, that of misquotation and quotation out of context from the works of leading evolutionists. This tactic not only frustrates scientists but it misleads school board members, legislators, and the public. A representative sampling of scientists' responses to…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current status of sport sociology within American and Canadian Colleges and Universities. The study investigated: (1) the number of graduate and undergraduate courses offered in sport sociology; (2) current research area(s) of interest within sport sociology; (3) current text used as reference and…

The study was conducted to determine if (1) teachers and students in education curricula with completion of a course in characteristics of handicapping conditions held more positive attitudes toward handicapped persons than those who had not completed the course and (2) if graduate students or in-service teachers held more positive attitudes…