This article contains unit plans for a mass media course for tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. (RC)

Describes a course in creative writing in which the experience of birth was the theme and includes several of the stories written by the students. (RB)

Describes a course that provides students with a fundamental understanding of the chemical, catalytic, and engineering sciences related to the chemical reactions taking place in a variety of reactors of different configurations. Also describes the eight major lecture topics, course examinations, and term papers. The course schedule is included.…

Describes a course designed to provide the necessary academic study prior to students engaging in the practice of irrigation engineering. Rationale for the course, course structure, and special features of the course are included. (JN)

The process control sequence at Auburn University consists of two four-credit hour lecture courses and a two-credit hour laboratory course. Descriptions of the courses and of the laboratory are provided. Various comments about the sequence are included. Authors report that students are better prepared in process control under this sequence. (JN)

To keep parents and students informed of class requirements, have teachers design a curricular paper that outlines each course and send these home for parent/student review. (DCS)

Discusses the Keller Plan or personalized system of instruction (PSI), a mastery-oriented, self-paced, modular teaching strategy using student/peer proctors. Success for PSI in chemical engineering, operations research, electrical engineering, and nuclear engineering courses is explained. (DH)

Describes a course designed to achieve a balance between exposing students to (1) advanced topics in transport phenomena, pointing out similarities and differences between three transfer processes and (2) common methods of solving differential equations. (JN)

Describes a course designed to: use approaches developed in the study of transport phenomena as a unifying foundation; provide students with an understanding of the design and operation of these proceses; and review particular advantages and limitations of the processes being studied. Course content and teaching methods are included. (JN)

How an introductory political science course called "The Elements of Political Theory" is taught using Plato's "Republic," Hobbes's "Leviathan," the "Declaration of Independence," and the "Communist Manifesto" is discussed. In the course, students contrast the way ancients and moderns differ in…

The best way to teach psychology majors interviewing skills is through supervised practice. How one teacher used graduates of his interviewing techniques course as peer trainers in subsequent courses is described. (RM)

Describes a course in economics for journalists offered at the University of Oregon and discusses some of the limitations of such a course. (RB)

A television documentary series on information technology was used as core material for a general sociology elective. College students viewed programs at home and completed written assignments from an instructor-prepared study guide oriented to understanding sociological perspectives and concepts and applying them to issues related to information…

College students enrolled in a senior level political science seminar were assigned to read books and then write essays that uncovered one critical flaw in the work. The class was divided into teams to debate the value of the critiques. A mock trial format was used for the debates. (RM)

Breaks were imposed in the game Monopoly, at which times the players, college level students, elected one person and gave him or her the power to change the rules. Behavior similar to political behavior in the real world resulted. The students discovered the resemblance and wrote papers on what had occurred. (RM)