Presents the outline of an organic polymer chemistry short course, 3-4 weeks. (SL)

Describes a course designed to improve the instruction of teaching assistants (TA's) in physics laboratories. (SL)

Describes an undergraduate history course based on two themes: sport as a reflection of society and sport as a socializing agent affecting society. The course focuses on sports and industrialization, traditional and modern sports, political and economic aspects of sport, and inequality and discrimination in sports. (Author/JK)

Describes a final semester internship engineering course offered at McGill University. Students are placed under the direct supervision of practicing engineers while working on actual engineering projects. (SL)

Describes a college-level American history survey course which stimulated student interest by requiring them to submit research papers analyzing the effects of events in various decades upon their personal lives. For journal availability, see SO 505 897. (AV)

Describes, evaluates, and suggests possible improvements in Russian language and literature instruction in Soviet elementary and secondary schools. Recommends combining curriculum materials developed by the Ministry of Education in Moscow with materials of local origin in order to increase student interest. (Author/DB)

In an innovative college level political science course, politics is related to mass media communication. Objectives include helping students understand (1) how the media depicts authority systems in particular ways and (2) how public officials try to use the mass media to enhance their authority. For journal availability, see SO 505 820.…

Educational innovations are frequently undertaken with little or no planning. There are occasions, however, when it is possible to define educational problems with some precision and to plan changes which will "solve" these problems. Here is a report on such a case in the teaching of introductory anthropology at a large land-grant university.…

Discusses the first two parts of a three-part course. The first part addresses the problems of the growing social complexity in classrooms, the alternative and competing value systems operating among school participants and the effects of teaching within an extended bureaucracy. The second part places those problems within the social contexts of…

This article describes some of the community projects undertaken by high school geography students for an urban studies unit. (RC)

Suggests features, objectives, and requirements of a continuing education course specifically designed to teach physical assessment skills basic to nursing practice. (TA)

A description of the syllabus of a course in ancient and modern tragedy given in English at the University of Illinois. An annotated list of the plays studied, suggested films, recordings and commentaries, and sources for audio-visual materials are included. (AMH)

Frequently, universities prepare philologists of Russian for future careers as researchers, when most of them will become teachers of Russian as a foreign language. This article suggests a course of studies more suitable for future teachers. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)

The teaching rationale and procedures used in a graduate course on human sexuality at the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago are described. (LBH)

Outlines the goals and content of the syllabus aimed at developing reading and listening comprehension in a beginners' course in German. Types of written and spoken texts; language register used; language structure patterns desired; lexis and vocabulary; and language function are discussed as they are included in the syllabus. (CHK)