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Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1988
Undergraduate engineering students and their advisors are provided with a handbook to help improve the quality and coherence of the humanities and social sciences (H&SS) component of undergraduate engineering education (fostering more purposeful H&SS course selection). The first of this handbook's three sections has an engineering major…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Selection (Students), Degree Requirements, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedGuppy, Neil; Arai, A. Bruce – Teaching Sociology, 1994
Reports on a comparative study of the undergraduate sociology curriculum in 36 U.S. and 38 English Canadian institutions. Finds that Canadian schools more closely resemble the European sociology curriculum by emphasizing sociological theory. Contends that U.S. schools emphasize research methods in the context of a liberal arts program. (CFR)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Degree Requirements
Peer reviewedDowney, Dennis J.; Torrecilha, Ramon S. – Teaching Sociology, 1994
Asserts that diversity breadth requirements, also known as multicultural requirements, have become an integral part of undergraduate education in U.S. universities. Reports on a study of 32 institutions on their undergraduate multicultural course requirements. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Design, Degree Requirements
Peer reviewedDunn, Dana S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1993
Asserts that, among trends in higher education, none is more debated than the place of general education and the use of the core curriculum as an antidote to specialized education. Argues that psychology can be effectively presented to undergraduates in an interdisciplinary core curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Degree Requirements, Educational Change
Parks, Julia Etta – 1987
Documenting the history of the Reading Program offered by the Department of Education at Washburn University, Kansas from its inception in 1937 to 1987, this document contains information related to the undergraduate reading requirements for the completion of the Elementary and Secondary Education Degrees and the graduate requirements for the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Degree Requirements, Educational History
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1985
The responses of 1,866 faculty are reported on trends in staffing, funding, course offerings and enrollments, majors, personnel policy, library holdings, and supplies and equipment in their departments. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgets, College Faculty, Degree Requirements, Departments
Peer reviewedMesser, Wayne S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Examines the catalog descriptions of 42 undergraduate psychology programs in North Carolina. Reveals that minimum introductory and methodological requirements consists of one-term introductory, statistics, and experimental design courses. A required integrated experience was most often a history and systems course or senior seminar. This is…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Course Content
