Explores the crucial importance of experience to making meaning. Asserts that much of pedagogy functions backwards by starting with textbooks and theory and then moving to "real world" experience. (EV)

Summarizes the responses to a survey of 106 community colleges in California concerning their geography programs. Briefly discusses information regarding facilities and faculty. Examines comparative enrollments in cultural, physical, world regional, and California geography courses. (MJP)

Explores the effectiveness of intervention discussion sections for a college general chemistry course designed to apply research on student preconceptions, knowledge integration, and student explanations. Describes the testing of two interventions on bond energy and spontaneity. (Contains 44 references.) (DDR)

Outlines principles that guide a successful undergraduate economics honors program: simplicity, accessibility, skill development, risk minimization, and incentives to combat procrastination. Describes a model which specifies three of the usual six electives and requires a senior thesis that makes an original contribution to economics…

Provides an overview of papers presented at the Scholarship of Teaching Economics conference held at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in July 2000. Considers who should determine the curriculum, what should be taught, and how the curriculum should be taught. (RLH)

An essay on the institutionalization of women's studies in the college curriculum is followed by three responses describing women's studies programs at individual institutions and the approaches used to organize their curricula. (MSE)

The renewed interest in interdisciplinary studies is producing different instructional approaches that are providing an important corrective to the limited and fragmented perspectives of the individual academic disciplines. Since they are in the curricular mainstream as requirements for all students, interdisciplinary offerings may have more…

The University of Utah offers an interdisciplinary, historically oriented humanities-science course, a modification and extension of the traditional Western Civilization course, in its honors program. The course has been successful for 12 years. (MSE)

Reviews the "decaying civilization,""utility of the humanities," and "excessive vocationalism" arguments typically advanced for renewing emphasis on the humanities. Identifies challenges facing community college humanities faculty: involving students and faculty in curriculum design, developing more focused definitions of humanities, and taking…

Discusses reasons for the continuing importance of transfer education. Examines the economic and organizational culture contexts of transfer. Describes a step-wise strategy colleges can use to design policies and programs for transfer. (DMM)

Defines biological engineering and discusses why it is needed. Lists some interesting areas of biological engineering. Presents a table of four phases of scientific disciplines. (YP)

Describes the general education process of the Netherlands and the system of higher education in engineering. Discusses possibilities for postgraduate students and some differences from other European educational systems. (YP)

Discusses basic issues in designing and administering study abroad programs, including program length, location, structure, and supervision; financial considerations; student selection; orientation; and interinstitutional cooperation. Looks at current trends in integration with the host culture and curricular support. (DMM)

At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, charged that students are not required to devote adequate time to general education. Changing the way the major is organized, he said, is difficult because change goes against in-grained traditions and structures. (MLW)

Describes the efforts of the Community College of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) to completely revise the college curriculum. Focuses on the definition of "curriculum," an outside consultant's review, research on outcomes assessment, curriculum planning models, estimates of the time commitment involved, and human relations and group dynamics.…