Describes a method of teaching freshman composition while making students more self aware. (RB)

Discusses how property records served as the basis for assignments in one news reporting course. (RB)

Beginning with Western Kentucky University's (Bowling Green) fall 1999 semester, exercises required for the geography and meteorology course used computers for learning. This course enrolls about 250 students per year, most of whom choose it to fulfill a general education requirement. Of the 185 geography majors, it is required for those who…

This paper describes a five-session course entitled "Program Evaluation," which was taught via interactive television in the summer of 2002 to 68 doctoral and master's students in 5 of 6 locations throughout New Mexico. Students received a 4-hour lecture and then participated in off-line activities directed by the instructor. Problems in distance…

In June 1997 a 25-minute television interview program, "The SAU Report," was born at Southern Arkansas University. In January 1998 a 15-minute radio news program titled "SAU Magazine" was produced by Advanced Radio Production students. As 1998 began, with coverage available for SAU student broadcasts, it made sense to encourage…

The ability to work with different professions in a project-oriented setting is critical to today's engineering education. InterProfession (IPRO) projects, a three-credit course at the Illinois Institute of Technology, are integrated into the curriculum. Through these industry-sponsored projects, students will deal with real world engineering…

This paper chronicles experience in designing graduate-level statistics instruction for delivery via the internet. The paper begins with a summary of course content and specific procedures for instructional interaction via the internet. Special challenges posed by both the course content and the Internet mode of instruction are identified, and…

Psychology and computer science were clustered into a course in "Internet Psychology" with the goal of enabling students to use electronic networks responsibly and creatively and to understand the principles of psychology as they operate in the electronic context. Fourteen students from a variety of majors registered for the class.…

The experience described in this work was conducted in a discipline at Escola Politecnica in University of Sao Paulo. This discipline has a multidisciplinary character and almost all subjects discussed during engineering course might be addressed. Also, aspects related to aptitude and attitudes can be easily trained and discussed in this…

This document represents an extensively revised and updated United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Directory for Environmental Training Worldwide. It presents a listing of environmental education and training (EE&T) opportunities around the world as well as information on financial assistance for environmental studies abroad. This version…

Across many organizational communication curricula, faculty are including undergraduate courses on the analysis and assessment of an organization's communication. This paper was designed to aid potential instructors of an organizational analysis course in their preparation and execution. The paper contains a syllabus which provides one example of…

The undergraduate course described attempts to help the student determine the contribution of historical study to an understanding of the present and to form a realistic concept of the future. (Author/KM)

Article described a course designed to bring Europeans into closer contact with one another thereby developing greater understanding and sympathy with neighboring countries. (RK)

Article presented an analysis of an education course and questioned whether it could be applied to other subject matter and other disciplines. (Editor/RK)