Describes a literature course designed to help prospective high school English and language arts teachers understand the problems faced by unskilled readers by using literature from unfamiliar South Pacific cultures. Notes that the prospective teachers gain increased knowledge of themselves and the mental processes they use in making meaning. (RS)

Discusses the problems associated with teaching a literature survey course. Outlines a team teaching concept and provides details about an experimental course in which faculty specializing in particular areas serve as guest lecturers. (PRA)

A history course, "The Western Concept of the Self and the Mythology of the Other," is aimed at melding gender and multicultural experience into a core component of the liberal arts curriculum. It was developed for the Prep Program, a University of Wisconsin program providing opportunity to prisoners to earn an associate degree. (JOW)

Describes a course on communication skills in psychology that includes learning library research skills, writing research reports and term papers, making behavioral observation notes, and giving oral presentations. Shows that student performance in tests on knowledge of American Psychological Association principles improved during the course.…

Discusses the development of a science curriculum that will enable students to apply what they have learned to the problems inherent to their generation as times and technologies change. Focuses on students still in school, trainees and workers in industry, and adults. (CCM)

Describes an interdisciplinary quantitative reasoning course that uses algebra to answer questions from science. Describes the development, philosophy, and structure of the course and demonstrates two of the projects developed for this course. Presents student reactions and attitudes towards the course. (Contains 11 references.) (Author/ASK)

Describes a high school course created so that it is constructed of four topics dissimilar in character and bearing little mathematical relation to each other, does not demand specific prerequisite knowledge in mathematics, and provides general knowledge of game theory and its concerns. Studies students' grades and attitudes toward the course.…

A survey of faculty members (n=74) and undergraduate students (n=242) examined perceived importance of syllabus components. Significant differences were found between faculty and student responses, with students more concerned than faculty with information on test format, length and format of required papers and projects, course withdrawal policy,…

Describes a journalism course that used an integrative approach to teaching about the principles, practice, and effects of civic journalism, combining theory, news writing, and evaluation. Describes the class project on the controversial issue of panhandling. Discusses goals of civic journalism and of the project, journalistic methods used,…

Discusses the knowledge, problem-solving strategies, and desktop publishing skills students need to learn about documentation writing. Describes a course developed by the authors that provides these skills, focusing on strategies for problem solving, user analysis, conventions, document design and desktop publishing, and using authentic…

States that to combat the media onslaught, teachers need to teach their students to be aware of, to evaluate, and to become literate in their understanding and their deployment of the media. Describes strategies used to teach a course in world literature for gifted 12th graders which uses the mass media to impart a multicultural viewpoint. (PA)

Discusses a college course on "the Bible as Literature." Describes how, by focusing on the biography of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels, and comparing it to other cultural narratives about him (in the Apocrypha, films, biographies, and novels), students learn to see how various ages and cultures have reshaped Jesus's life and mission.…

Discusses the place of writing in mathematics classes. Presents three specific writing assignments designed for and used in a college abstract algebra course. (ASK)

Presents a first-semester course in mathematics for 6-year-old children by formulating certain general requirements for the curriculum and the instructional methods with the aim of leading children to form their initial mathematical concepts. (ASK)

Suggests that autobiography is a fertile context for students to develop a facility for reading and writing and for defining and constructing themselves within an academic setting. Discusses using autobiography in an introduction to academic discourse course for developmental college students. (RS)