A brief description of East Texas State's Audio-Visual Education course, a course designed to teach undergraduates and graduate students the educational applications of media in general and television in particular. (LS)

Recommendations are made for a new college curriculum based on smaller instructional units, and the results of a media-centered experiment are set forth. (MF)

Convinced of the need for changes in the mode of science and engineering education to meet the demands of the modern world, the author proposes that (1) college science and engineering curricula should be flexible enough to permit students to pursue various areas as their knowledge, interests, and abilities develop and change, (2) specialized…

Discusses the impact of the women's movement in New Zealand as reflected by the introduction of women's studies programs. Examines the origins of women's studies courses, relationships with institutions, and containment/repression issues. Advocates a transdisciplinary approach to women's studies which synthesizes information from multiple…

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, it identifies a number of needs assessment issues and, second, it describes the operationalization of a needs assessment project based in one particular college setting. It confronts the realities of practice with the ideals of instructional modeling. (CE)

The cultures of the science community and the humanities community misunderstand each other at the core, but there is more misunderstanding on the part of humanists about science than the reverse. If humanists insist that technical specialists study ethics and esthetics, what are the humanists prepared to study in return? (Author/MSE)

Reviews literature regarding alienated youth of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and maintains that the emphasis in higher education today on humanism and on self-direction may account for the apparent lack of alienation among present-day youth. (Author/DB)

Extrapolating trends from the past, particularly since the middle ages and the renaissance, the author posits probable and possible structure, tendencies for the future role, activities, and content of American higher education. (SJL)

A biographical sketch of John Galen Howard, founder of the Department of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, is presented. Howard's conservative outlook and idealistic nature are examined and his influence on the curriculum at the university is traced. (PHR)

A biographical sketch of William Wilson Wurster, dean of the Department of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, is presented. Tracing Wurster's early education and work, Wurster's belief that architecture was for people is illustrated. His influence on the curriculum, not only at the University of California but elsewhere, is…

Describes the design of a new laboratory course that calls for experiments to be grouped in clusters. Each cluster has a unifying theme which gives coherence to the experiments. Other important guidelines in design were the use of computers, introduction of microscale chemistry, and use of instrumentation. Cluster examples include Carbon Is Number…