This course outline is intended as a guide to using the American Institute of Small Business' text entitled "How To Set Up Your Own Small Business." The outline, which is based on a 20- or 21-week course cycle, is organized around the following topics: the nature of small business and entrepreneurship; sources of information about entrepreneurship…

The goal behind a televised correspondence class in theatre is to expose students to the fact that variety is a magic factor in theater. In the three-unit course, students watch televised videotapes; read the plays, textbook, and teacher-developed study guide; and mail in their completed assignments. The first videotape, "Miss Julie," shows a…

A proposal is presented for a Community College of Philadelphia course surveying basic social science skills and information, including scientific method, map usage, evolution, native peoples, social groups, and U.S. Government. Following a standard cover form, a statement of purpose for the course indicates that it is designed to provide…

Describes a two-semester General Education course called "Literature and Related Arts in German Culture," taught in German at Harvard University. (PP)

A psychology course in which students are required to apply learned principles to their interpersonal experiences is the instructors answer to the need to make psychological principles and methods generally available for a wider impact on human existence. (JH)

This introductory psychology course consisting of 16 contemporary films available at each student's convenience; readings; discussion sessions; and laboratory experience, assisted by upper-division psychology students, is an attempt to minimize some of the problems of the usual introductory lecture course. (JH)

A course on game preparation attended by students from different disciplines involved an exposure to various types of games, leading up to individual and group development of games. Two of the games developed, Senate and Disarmament, described in the article, exemplify the benefit in hard deductive reasoning required by game preparation. (JH)

A medical sociology course is described, and the importance of interdisciplinary teaching in the medical and health sciences is discussed. (Author/PG)

Describes a course incorporating environmental studies in an economics course at the community college level. Includes 10 problems formulated as group projects for the students. (SH)

A college chemistry course for nonchemistry majors that uses analysis of food as a starting point for the study of elementary chemistry is described and discussed. (DT)

Discusses the interdisciplinary approach in the College Board's Advanced Placement European History courses, in an attempt to respond to the needs of today's students. (Author/PG)

The YDP started in 1971 with a grant to establish guidelines for institutional change which would help disaffected students who had feelings of alienation, rejection, and powerlessness. Article considered two of its successful programs. As well student involvement in decision making was discussed. (Author/RK)

Teaching a course in clinical psychology so as to foster development of problem solving skills, attitudes and behaviors such as autonomy and independent thinking is reported. (Editor/PG)