The author suggests subjects and methods for including word processing competencies in office curriculums pending implementation of curriculum revisions. She discusses word processing concepts and processes, communication skills, equipment skills, and supervision skills. (MF)

The dilemma of providing for continued development of new academic programs in the context of severe budgetary constraints is examined. Two curricular planning strategies that provide for academic growth with minimum resource proliferation are detailed--development of umbrella academic programs and creation of curricular aggregates. (AF)

Discussed are college courses taught in the Netherlands that are concerned with the role of science, technology, and scientists in contemporary society, sometimes called STS (Science, Technology, and Society) courses. Topics include STS as a movement and an educational innovation and the agenda for STS courses. (JMK)

A study was undertaken with the view that economic education is a continuing process and that development of personal economic understanding is a crucial part of business and economic courses in 2-year colleges. It compared personal economic understanding achieved by freshmen and sophomores who completed courses entitled Introduction to Business,…

Describes the use of integrated modular teaching of the human biology component of the Health Associate Program at Johns Hopkins University, where the goal is to develop an understanding of the sciences as applied to primary care. Discussion covers the module sequence, the human biology faculty, goals of the human biology faculty, laboratory…

Presents a synopsis of the findings from the Center for the Study of Community Colleges investigation of the humanities faculty in two-year colleges, with particular emphasis on foreign language teachers, and a preliminary report of curriculum patterns. (Author/RM)

The study of foreign languages in the liberal arts curriculum is defended. Foreign languages reveal the rules characterizing cognitive human activities; they help us to understand both common bonds of humanity and varieties of human behavior. Language study should be central to humanities study. (CHK)

Presents two articles: "Modular Flexibility in an Individualized Introductory Cultural Anthropology Course," by Daniel D. Whitney and Patrick J. Dubbs, and, "Physical Anthropology as a Laboratory Science Course in a Community College," by Yechiel M. Lehavy. The former describes an individualized approach to anthropology, whereas the latter…

Concludes that black studies programs should develop an octopus-like academic structure which reaches out in several directions, simultaneously: initiating and illuminating, discerning and fostering, observing and directing, collecting and disseminating; all with one goal in view, exploring the black experience within a universal perspective.…

The purpose of English in general or liberal arts education is discussed. (RW)

Counselor education departments are housed in colleges of education and appear to perceive their role and responsibility as including the education of teachers. A substantial majority responding to this survey are actively involved in providing learning experiences for teachers other than counselors and anticipate an increase in such involvement.…

Discusses results of a survey of eight leading administrators/authors/professors in professional schools of mass communication, who unanimously hold that mass communication theory is an essential component in the professional school curriculum. Discusses content of theory courses, anticipated outcomes, and rationales for including theory in media…

Provides details of the Gender and Ethnic Equity in Science Education (GEESE) program that gives preservice science teachers the opportunity to use clinical observations and reflection as vehicles for discovering the disparate school experiences of the diverse students in their science classrooms. Contains 71 references. (DDR)

Service-learning is used least often in the fields at the core of the liberal arts and sciences, in part because of the perceived incompatibility between the purposes of a liberal education and the dynamics of service-learning. When we understand better the purposes and values of liberal learning, we will find service-learning a useful pedagogy…

This article proposes that a college curriculum acceptable to both multiculturalists and those who promote the Western tradition above others could offer mostly Western texts and histories in most courses while mandating some immersion in a clearly non-Western culture, on the grounds that we must study Western culture not because it is best but…