Discovery and understanding of intellectual truth is more demanding and important to learn than excellence. (Author/AF)

Reasons for using small peer group interaction and ways of utilizing student assistance in teaching about human sexuality are described. (Author)

Reports the content, progress, and outcome of a course in marketing for black students conducted at Ohio University during the Spring quarter of 1969. (JM)

A course entitled Geography in an Urban World" at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, is described. Objectives and rationale are given as well as the content: history, cultural, economic, political, environmental, transportation, and future aspects of cities. (NH)

Describes a cluster concept approach for aerospace technician training in the junior college, student matriculation, flight instruction techniques, instructional equipment, faculty, admission policy, and sources of support. (GR)

The problem of gearing course content to fit the needs of the students is common to most educators. In this article, Dr. Fitzelle discusses the use of an interest inventory as one possibility for solving this problem, especially in child development courses. (Editor)

Discusses the usage of Swahili and other languages in Africa and outlines an experimental college curriculum for teaching Swahili and related AFrican studies. Includes a bibliography of available texts in the area. (JM)

Reprinted from "Providence , a publication of Providence College, Rhode Island.

The liberal wish to conserve recently established curricular eclecticism and the conservative wish for a new, prescriptive curriculum reflect profoundly different views of the nature of knowledge and education; however, they also draw on arguments, attitudes, and assumptions that go as far back in educational philosophy as Plato. (MSE)

Historical scholarship on race and sex advanced significantly in the 1970s, but Black and women's studies today face problems of inadequate funding, small enrollments, disproportionately little focus on women and Blacks in college curricula, and history instructors' failure to incorporate the new scholarship on race and sex into their teaching.…

Although certain ethical issues in faculty employment have received attention, little consideration is given to others, such as the teaching role and avoidance of practical ethics in the curriculum. There are several possible reasons for this neglect, particularly the anxiety potential of the topics. College faculty must put their own ethical…

Describes development of an interdisciplinary engineering course called "Social Aspects of the Technical Decision Process." Course content includes such interdisciplinary topics as alternative energy, ecology, and urban planning, which represent traditional engineering concepts. However, social and historical dimensions are built into topics.…

The problems of traditional overspecialization in British universities and current efforts to liberalize the curriculum are discussed in the context of the historical development of the university and curriculum structure. (MSE)

Those believing that liberal arts, taught as the civic arts, should be a significant part of the college curriculum must insist on a radical change to a core liberal arts curriculum of one or two years within the university, to precede vocational training and specialization. (Author/MSE)