Auxiliary materials, exciting and varied formats, and consistent revision help provide high quality content to wide and scattered student audiences at a variety of hours. (Author)

Describes a course designed to introduce the average chemical engineer, who has only a minimum familiarity with the concepts of capillarity and flow through porous media (and none at all with reservoir engineering concepts) to petroleum production engineering. Includes course outline indicating technical content of the course. (Author/JN)

The use of Nominal Group Technique in structuring a curriculum development team's preliminary course planning is described. The technique supported the process by modifying group dynamics, rapidly identifying central curriculum design issues, and facilitating experience exchange. Its strengths and limitations in the context of a bachelor's program…

Outlines the development of feminism in Canada and the concommitant emergence of women's studies programs. Discusses philosophical issues, such as the separatist/integrationist conflict, and describes major journals, associations, and university programs. Underlines differences between women's studies in Canada and the United States and the threat…

Focusing on general education literature published in the last five years, summarizes current concerns. Focuses on definitions of general education, its content and outcomes, and new curricular developments. (DMM)

A project that locates and preserves sources of local history material about the Queens borough in New York, a Chatauqua program that presents a first-hand account of life on the frontier, efforts to introduce public history as a university course, and research that focuses on Dwight Eisenhower's presidency of Columbia University are described.…

Quotations from a variety of literature are used to illustrate the perspective that English instruction, as part of the humanities curriculum, has an essential place in the college curriculum and is indeed relevant to modern higher education. (MSE)

The next generation of Americans will need to understand technology, including the modeling techniques and problem-solving modes developed by technological decision makers. Courses in technological literacy, developed at several institutions (SUNY Stony Brook, University of Central Florida, Lehigh, Penn State, MIT, UCLA) to demystify the applied…

The programs that will become the chief medium for giving women's studies a permanent place in the academic world are those in which scholars with other intellectual affiliations and interests work simultaneously (1) to develop women's studies and (2) to integrate its materials into the long-established university department. (MLW)

Realizing the ideal of the interdisciplinary university has been problematic. The interdisciplinary system may not be able to survive in the university because of the educational process, which is unused to operating as an open system. The University of Houston-Clear Lake City experience is described. (MSE)

Defines the scope of the humanities. Discusses the role of the humanities in community colleges and the responsibility of humanities instructors to strengthen the discipline. Itemizes the qualities of humanists and identifies them as stereotypically feminine. Discusses the implications for male and female instructors. (DD)

Some major circumstances that require the development of new curriculum models are briefly discussed, and a statement of what a curriculum model must include to be viable is presented. (Article originally published in 1965.) (AF)

Describes a questionnaire given psychology majors at the University of Houston asking reasons for majoring, degree goals, career goals, other goals and needs in college, and satisfaction ratings. Findings showed a discrepancy between student goals and curriculum offerings. Recommends better counseling. (CK)

Outlines the assignments and topics covered in a 13-week human sexuality course and reviews and annotates course readings and films. Topics covered in the class include: sexuality in sex-positive and sex-negative cultures, in pre-industrial Europe; in Russia and Germany; in the Third World; and in advanced capitalist society. (AYC)

The author describes the course on death and dying taught at the University of Maryland, its effects on students, and mythologies about this topic. Presented at the Conference on Death and Dying: Education, Counseling, and Care, December 1-3, 1976, Orlando, Florida. (Author)