UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN POLICY ON PLACEMENT IN COLLEGE GERMAN COURSES IS DISCUSSED WITH RELATION TO ARTICULATION BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK. PROFICIENCY TESTING AND AWARDING OF COLLEGE CREDIT FOR HIGH SCHOOL FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES ARE OUTLINED BRIEFLY. DESCRIPTIONS OF ELEMENTARY COLLEGE GERMAN COURSES ARE INCLUDED. THIS ARTICLE APPEARED…

AT A TIME WHEN HUMANITIES COURSES ARE UNDERGOING REEVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT, THEY MUST NOT BE SUFFOCATED BY INCORPORATING INTO THEM TOO MANY LITERARY WORKS AND TOO MANY APPROACHES. SELECTION OF WORKS IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE, AND PERHAPS THE BEST PRINCIPLE UPON WHICH TO BASE SELECTION IS ONE WHICH ENCOURAGES "ENLIGHTENED CHERISHING"--THE…

This study involved examining an instructional unit with regard to its concept content and appropriateness for its target audience. The study attempted to determine (1) what concepts are treated explicitly or implicitly, (2) whether there is a hierarchical conceptual structure within the unit, (3) what level of sophistication is required to…

This is Part II of the first volume of the proceedings of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) Geometry Conference, held at Santa Barbara in June, 1967. The purpose of the conference was to consider the status of geometry in colleges at the undergraduate level. This volume contains two lectures: "The Geometric…

This document presents a week-by-week syllabus for an 18-week high school technical theatre course. This course, which may be expanded to one year or reduced to nine weeks, emphasizes having the student learn by doing, so that the teacher eventually becomes freer to concentrate on play-directing responsibilities. The document also discusses the…

Examinations of 50 general science writing course syllabi used at 32 schools (55% response rate to a survey of 58 colleges and universities listing science writing courses in their curricula) reveal a wide range of course objectives and a varied use of resource materials. The emphasis is necessarily on writing skills, although a number of the…

The module deals mainly with some of the service problems experienced by consumers, examines the causes of some problems, and suggests some solutions, attempting to present the standpoint of the producer as well as the buyer and user. The module may be presented as a semester or part semester course. Organized by expected student understandings,…

This guide provides operators of driving schools with a body of information and procedures that will enable them to develop programs capable of meeting the particular needs of their students, and capable of being administered within the resources available to them. The guide does not attempt to prescribe one specific instructional program but…

The course book contains eight lessons designed for military Personnel learning how to properly prepare their U.S. Income Tax returns. The lessons cover the following subjects: requirments for filing returns of income and declaration of estimated tax; exemptions; gross income; exclusions and deductions to arrive at adjusted gross income;…

This study examines the effect of intensive, content oriented summer workshops and implementation workshops upon 87 teachers. The curriculum for the workshops was based upon the Mathematics-Method Project materials, which coordinate the methods and content disciplines using small group activities. The significant differences (p less than .05)…

The catalog was compiled to assist instructors in planning community college and university curricula using the 48 computer-assisted accountancy lessons available on PLATO IV (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation) for first semester accounting courses. It contains information on lesson access, lists of acceptable abbreviations for…

The course outlined in this document was designed to help students develop reading comprehension skills that will enable them to adequately use government procedural manuals. Five goals are identified: to be able to (1) understand and use the organization of material in order to locate specific information, (2) identify the main idea of…

The illustrated manual is designed for student use in learning home dishwashing and in preparing for a job as a dishwashing-machine operator. The six parts cover vocabulary, hand dishwashing, machine dishwashing, problems and checks, special treatment of various dishes, and safety tips. The vocabulary section presents an objective and defines 22…

The training course is designed to develop the awareness needed in accepting checks, as well as what to do in a situation where the person is purposely passing fraudulent checks. The format of the document is a two-column arrangement with an outline of the material to be taught juxtaposed next to suggestions for teaching the material. Four…

Optical and electromagnetic fundamentals are presented in this fourth unit of the Project Physics text for use by senior high students. Development of the wave theory in the first half of the 19th Century is described to deal with optical problems at the early stage. Following explanations of electric charges and forces, field concepts are…