In an attempt to meet increasing student demands for family life courses at the college level, one university has experimented with and learned much from the use of recorded television tapes as an innovative approach to effective instruction. Televised classes are a unique medium unlike lecture, seminar, or textbooks; both instructors and students…

Five program areas among Wyoming higher education institutions were studied. The programs analyzed were: Agriculture, Apprenticeship Training, Computer Science, Law Enforcement, and Secretarial Science. The purpose of the study was to compare the five programs among the community colleges and the University of Wyoming. The report is divided into…

The television viewing habits of television students enrolled in a psychology course or an anthropology course were studied by means of a TV viewing log. In addition to the log, a demographic questionnaire was also filled out. This report is comprised of the data collected during the study, which is presented in 69 tables. Six appendixes provide:…

A study was conducted among deans of instruction in North Carolina community colleges and technical institutes and faculty members and students at Gaston College to determine the need for a study-technique course. Three questionnaires were constructed and distributed to the three groups. The questionnaires elicited information as to the need for…

This handbook is the culmination of an examination of problems encountered in the articulation of foreign language programs from secondary schools to college. The report contains the results of discussions with the chairmen of language departments at the college level and the examining committee, the findings obtained from on-campus interviews,…

Journalism is a profession, and the academic preparation for it whould be emulative of professional schools such as medicine and law rather than of liberal arts colleges. The purpose of education for journalism should be to produce the best possible newsgatherers, that is, reporters. In addition to preparing students in the basics of journalism,…

Promotion of economic literacy of teachers and students is a critical need in economic education. Graduate and undergraduate programs in economic education described in this paper represent significant steps toward the goal of having social studies teachers well-prepared in economics and the teaching of it. Some centers and Councils on Economic…

This independent study module treats those Americans who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. They include Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Pearl Buck. Selections from the writings of these authors are included. Their works represent many literary genres and also…

The design and demonstration of a two-year junior college curriculum to train assistants to city planners and to professional personnel in the urban development and renewal fields are described. The Urban Development Assistant Project began in September 1964 and concluded in September 1969. A total of 145 students enrolled in the program. This…

To determine the adequacy of undergraduate teacher preparation in composition, questionnaires were distributed to a representative sample of Florida's English teachers, and a survey was made of the major teacher-training universities in Florida. Teachers were asked to indicate courses in language and composition that were included in their…

This Institute was designed to fill the gap between the need for change and the barriers that frustrate change by focusing on the leadership development of local ABE directors through an administrative training program. This report outlines the objectives of the project, the methodology employed, and the outcomes. A significant outcome of the…

Argues that the conflicts inherent in the role of the police officer exemplify the need for liberal education as the essential foundation of professional training. Includes discussion of the police role, requisite aptitudes and attributes, contemporary status of law enforcement instruction, and police role conflicts as a criterion for educational…

The National University of Zaire was established in 1971 from the merger of three formerly independent universities and 17 institutions of higher learning. The reform changed higher education administrative organization, emphasized African culture and Africanization of the academic staff, and achieved statutory integration of the university into…

Points out the importance of orality in past centuries and in some contemporary cultures (including that of the black urban ghetto); discusses the problems in moving from oral expression to writing; and notes contrasts between primary orality, writing and printing, and secondary orality--the orality induced by radio and television. (GW)

Presents a syllabus, developed by the Exeter University Department of Classics, for a degree course designed to do justice to both the literary and the historical aspects of the ancient world. The course is called "Latin and Ancient History." (Author/KM)