The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges has adopted regulations establishing distinct sets of standards for courses which may or may not be applied for credit toward the associate degree. In addition, the Board requires that noncredit courses be approved through the same local curriculum review and approval process as credit…

The proceedings of a seminar on corporate loyalty and the contributions of a liberal arts curriculum to this quality in the workplace are presented. They include the keynote address by Tadao Okabe and panel presentations by Paul R. Verkuil, Paul MacCowatt, Vinson Sutlive, Thomas T. Tilghman, George N. Appell, Herrington J. Bryce, Hans Tiefel, and…

From the earliest literary forms, myths, parables, and oral histories, literature has held human values up to the light and given life to the problems of being human. Little else in students' lives provides room for the consideration of values and provides them with a foundation to understand and confront the unavoidable failures and even…

A college-level course about the effects of television on children and the process of social policy formation is described in terms of pedagogical goals, strategies, and perspectives. The proposed course of instruction focuses on three primary areas of study: (1) child-related issues; (2) television-related issues; and (3) policy-related issues.…

This curriculum plan for the Diploma Programme in Library/Information Studies at the University of the South Pacific was designed to meet the needs of undergraduate library/information education in the South Pacific region. The program is presented through distance education to students in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Solomon…

An overview is given of a study that examined the place of linguistics in undergraduate curricula in the United States and Canada, the nature and structure of the curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in linguistics, and the population served by the curriculum. The overview describes the project and its major activities (data collection and…

Linguistics, as one of the cognitive sciences, has much to offer the teaching of basic science, i.e., the teaching of how to ask and investigate interesting questions. Linguistics is particularly well-suited for teaching about the process of "doing" science because the methodology appropriate to the study of language from a generative…

Characteristics of liberal arts education and different approaches to educational modeling are examined. Attention is directed to: applications of graphic depictions; Venn-Euler diagrams to represent inclusion-exclusion phenomena as well as areas of commonality in learning processes and liberal education; the uses of flow charts for describing…

The rationale and development of a business Spanish curriculum at Western Illinois University are described. Through a synergistic combination of courses from the College of Business and the communication and foreign language departments, eight new courses were created. The historical interrelationships of communication, language, and business,…

Points out those recommendations made by the Carnegie Commission which are most closely related to the field of modern languages and suggests ways in which language departments can strengthen their programs. (PM)

The general question of what an undergraduate education is and how it should be related, if at all, to society as a whole, is discussed. Particular reference is given to the issue of liberal education and its relationship with career education. The thesis is that, although career education and liberal education may be incompatible in a specific…

The newspaper can be used as a resource tool in the college communication course, to introduce current and relevant subject matter and to get students actively involved in the study of the content of the world outside the classroom. Methods of using newspapers as a basis for analyzing communication techniques and for applying these techniques are…

Audiovisual aids were incorporated in a college elementary education course as a means of teaching children's literature. (JH)

The significance of the part-time degree course in psychology at the University of Hull under the administration of an adult education department satisfies a need as envisaged by the Russell Report, for more part-time degrees other than those offered by the Open University. (BP)