This brief report describes the development and implementation of a unique, full-year, credit-bearing, technology course in literary Braille transcription offered at a Long Island (New York) high school. It describes the program's goals, development, implementation, students, ongoing activities, outreach efforts, and student attitudes. Suggestions…

Presents a rearranged general chemistry curriculum in a sequence thought to be more logical to students than the traditional sequence. (Author/KHR)

A possible syllabus for English for Science and Technology is suggested based upon a set of causal relations, arising from a logical description of the presuppositional rhetoric of scientific passages that underlie most semantic functions. An empirical study is reported of the semantic functions present in 52 randomly selected passages.…

Describes key elements for the research and teaching components of green chemistry, an environmentally friendly approach to chemistry. Presents an outline of an introductory course to green chemistry and other efforts at Carnegie Mellon University to incorporate the environment in a fertile manner into teaching. (JRH)

Describes an advanced desktop publishing course that combines instruction in a few advanced techniques for using software with extensive discussion of such design principles as consistency, proportion, asymmetry, appropriateness, contrast, and color. Describes computer hardware and software, class assignments, problems, and the rationale for such…

Describes three different types of discipline-oriented English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) reading courses: multiple content courses, with readings from several subject areas; paired courses, where students enroll in a mainstream class paired with an ESL reading class; and theme courses, with readings taken from one specific mainstream discipline.…

Describes how a high school English teacher used the novel "Cold Sassy Tree" in an elective course entitled Thanatology: A Literary Approach. Notes that the novel clearly addresses virtually every aspect of death, dying, grieving, and loss through an artful array of three-dimensional characters. (RS)

Principles of Technology is an interdisciplinary course with a hands-on approach based on Unified Technical Concepts. Adaptable for all levels of students, it provides a means of integrating academic and vocational education. (SK)

Discusses a women's literature course designed to explore the connections between the narratives that students read and discuss and the narratives that they live and write. Examines a variety of sources, including fiction, biography, autobiography, literary criticism, history, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. (RS)

Describes the planning and implementation of an interdisciplinary course at Northwestern University entitled "Contrasting Roles of Television and Theater Directors." Asserts that identifying the points of convergence between television and theater allows students to broaden their creative experiences, prepare for their respective fields,…

Suggests adopting a performance-centered approach to the study of social movements to provide students with an experimental method of learning that breathes life into the social movements studied. Discusses goals and suggested course units. (MG)

Describes a 13-week, third-year course in Environmental Planning and Management consisting of a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshop/laboratory sessions and field-based projects. Student objectives include awareness of the need for and complexities of environmental concerns; critiques of work done by environmental agencies and consultants; and…

Presents a structure for a course that highlights the best cinemas of Eastern European countries, in order to acquaint students with cinematic traditions of the region. Discusses course activities, coursework and evaluation, and resources. Advocates structuring the course around the film of experience of Eastern Europe, and presents and discusses…

Discusses a new systems integrated course format that offers an attractive alternative to teachers at traditional medical schools that wish to obtain many of the benefits of problem-based learning without adopting a full problem-based learning curriculum. (Author/CCM)

Argues that a curriculum of peace must include ways to define human problems. Describes how the author taught a literature course called "The Healing Word: Literature About Coping with Death and Illness" that used literary selections and a film series to examine physical healing, mental healing, and healing from grief. (SR)