The College Credit Recommendation Service of the American Council on Education helps adults gain academic credit for formal courses taken outside college and university degree programs. It does this by providing educational institutions with reliable information to use in making decisions about credit awards. This guide is a reference to help…

Over the past decade, a number of scholars have publicly criticized large research universities for failing to provide undergraduate students with the skills and abilities needed to succeed both in life and in the workforce. At the heart of this criticism is the concern that research institutions have de-emphasized teaching by increasing the size…

Earth Algebra is an entry level college algebra course that incorporates the spirit of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics at the college level. The context of the course places mathematics at the center of one of the major current concerns of the world. Through…

In 1996, a comprehensive project was introduced in the first course of Reinforced Concrete Design, CVEG 4303 at the University of Arkansas. The primary purpose of this project was to highlight issues related to the construction of reinforced concrete elements. This semester-long project involves the design, fabrication, and testing of 8-foot long…

This paper describes how freshman composition teachers can provide students with tools for integrating different classes and navigating the university experience by introducing students to discourse community theory and viewing freshman composition as a foundation for Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). It begins by describing how discourse…

Teaching Organizational Culture is a powerful way to take students beyond a basic understanding of organizations. Students not only are able to glean insights to help them select an organization that best matches their own career direction, but they stand to gain a better sense of the impact they can have as leaders in the organization. This paper…

This paper reports on methods of interweaving ethnography in undergraduate communication courses, based on the premise that ethnographic fieldwork facilitates students' awareness of the contexts of their own meaning-making practices. The basic approach in the paper is to ask students to reflect on basic concepts of organizational or interpersonal…

This work presents a proposal for Teaching/Learning, on Object Oriented Programming for Entry Level Courses of Engineering and Computer Science, on University. The philosophy of Object Oriented Programming comes as a new pattern of solution for problems, where flexibility and reusability appears over the simple data structure and sequential…

To set goals and make informed choices, students need an array of thinking and problem-solving skills. Fundamental to this is an understanding of mathematical techniques and processes that will enable them to apply the basic skills necessary to address everyday mathematical situations, as well as acquire higher order skills in logical analysis and…

This document is the fall and spring semester course syllabus of Biology 242--Human Anatomy at Southern University (Louisiana). Sections include: (1) Descriptive Information; (2) Specification of Course Goals and Objectives; (3) Readings; (4) Description of Instructional Procedures; (5) Course Requirements; (6) Course Schedule; (7) Evaluation of…

In 1993, the Task Force on Integrated Communications reported that public relations and advertising students would better be prepared to enter a changing communications industry through an "integrated" curriculum. This paper is a case study of how one university has attempted to meet that challenge. The work has resulted in the development of an…

A justification for a strategy and the whole strategy then described and illustrated as it was applied to the development of a course for the Royal Australian Navy. (Author)

Describes a one semester literature course, "Human Relations in Literature," that allows students to discuss their own questions and problems indirectly in terms of a fictional character. (TO)

Describes a course at Michigan State University in which students carry out self-experiments in nutrition. Self-experiments help to impress students with importance of human nutrition and offer insights into problems associated with altered dietary patterns. A number of possible self-experiments in nutrition are listed. (JR)

Describes the science program offered at Forest View High School, Arlington Heights, Illinois. A wide variety of science courses have been included in the program in response to a survey of student opinion regarding the science topics that they wished to study. (JR)