For a new course in media editing at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, a nonlinear, affordable AVID Media Suite Pro system was selected for the student video laboratory, a textbook was chosen, and an instructor was trained. However, there were difficulties concerning the acquisition, delivery, setup, and debugging of the editing…

Frustrated with existing approaches to teaching introductory small group communication, an instructor developed a systematic approach called Group Problem Solving through Communication Styles. Assumptions underlying the course are that the small group communication class is a general education course (it may be the only communication class taken…

This paper presents a proposal for "Perspectives on Professional Knowledge," a course designed to introduce junior-level Syracuse University students to rhetorical and linguistic concepts as tools for the examination of professional knowledge and professional education. The paper briefly describes the course and discusses the…

A brief history of science fiction and an analysis of its functions precedes a description of a university level course taught at Trinity University on science fiction, technology, and values. Science fiction writing is briefly traced from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" through the golden age of science fiction in the 1940s and 1950s to its…

Article considered how our schools and universities can best cultivate the individual's deepest mental and spiritual qualities; how education can give him the creativity, the inner direction, the stability he needs in an era of dynamic and often violent change. (Author/RK)

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Six student projects which focus attention on the activities and processes through which conditions come to be defined as social problems are described. They demonstrate the relevance of the student's own values and life experiences in understanding social problems. (Author/DE)

This article describes a one-week indoor boy's physical education unit consisting of playground games and circus stunts. (RC)

Describes a course designed for students to gain knowledge with a degree of relevance by providing opportunities for student appreciation of the physics associated with features in everyday life. (GS)

Describes an interdisciplinary kinesiology course which incorporated a minicourse on the physics of sports. Outlines the topics treated in the minicourse and reports findings of student gains in both the affective and cognitive domains. (GS)

Education needed for university teaching is discussed in terms of general education, academic specialization, and professional preparation. A 1-term orientation course required for new lecturers and professors, open to others, at the University of Ife, Nigeria, is described which includes lectures, seminars, and workshops on university objectives…

The student planned, student organized, and student evaluated educational psychology courses at Des Moines Community College proceed on democratic principles, with students voting on course content and design, the role of the instructor, course progress, and grading policy. (NHM)