Describes preglacial processes, focusing on weathering, rate and timing of movement of material, snow and snow avalanches, rock glaciers, gelifluction, pingos, patterned ground, and the thaw of permafrost. This information is provided for individuals teaching introductory geology/geomorphology and whose specialty is not cold-climate phenomena. (JN)

Discusses the increasing availability of law, justice, and legal history as a first-year college course. Explains that the course is an interdisciplinary one, mostly taught by political scientists, sociologists, historians, and lawyers. Reviews available college and law school textbooks that could be used in the course. (SG)

In recent reports on improvement of the college curriculum, advocates of the liberal arts as the heart of a college education promise more than a liberal education can deliver, which is a solid foundation on which to build. (MSE)

Examines some of the goals, techniques, and problems involved in teaching second-language literatures at all levels of instruction. Briefly summarizes the work of the past 15 years and makes suggestions for future consideration. Also reports on a survey of 93 faculty members on the teaching of literature. (EKN)

This scrapbook resulted from a search for possible consensus on the outcomes of undergraduate education. The scrapbook contains quotations from various sources related to undergraduate education and serves as a resource that reviews some of the literature. It begins with later 20th century expectations of corporate and governmental bodies in…

Examines the nature of faculty culture and how certain aspects of it impede bibliographic instruction efforts. It is suggested that continued initiatives by librarians to understand and to reach out to faculty are needed to increase widescale acceptance by faculty of bibliographic instruction. (Contains 126 references.) (Author/LRW)

Undergraduate psychology is considered a contemporary major achieving general education and study-in-depth goals. Past reports on the psychology major are reviewed to define the field of study. Eight common goals, a common framework for course requirements, and four curricular models, adaptable to a variety of institutional settings, are…

Review of eight studies evaluating strategies for teaching nursing research found they emphasized contextual rather than internal or external validity. A typology for research on teaching strategies was proposed using the categories of purpose, methodological assumptions, types of validity, and sample size. (Contains 45 references.) (SK)

This review looks at the changes over the last 10 years in priorities guiding funding decisions in science education. A general survey of trends in funding both graduate and undergraduate education are covered, followed by a description of specific National Science Foundation initiatives. Understanding these changes should help proposal writers…

The kinds and uses of computers are briefly outlined, and the principal methods and program design of Bulgaria's undergraduate computer science instruction for specialists and nonspecialists are described. (MSE)

Four ways in which legal studies can enhance the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum are discussed: the interdisciplinary legal studies course, radical revisions of the liberal arts curriculum, supplementary courses with a practical emphasis, and the legal studies program or department. (MSE)

Presents information on how and what is taught in courses on the "Age of Goethe." Two appendices are presented that list the institutions responding to a questionnaire concerning the teaching of this course and the less familiar texts of the period that are treated by some instructors. (GLR)

Explains critical issues to consider when merging student affairs with academic affairs. States that this merger has potential to encourage greater interaction and become a catalyst for developing learning partnerships on campus. Suggests that in order to make partnership work, faculty, academic administrators, and student affair professionals may…

Focuses on the general impact academic and student affairs partnerships have on the climate and culture of an institution where they occur. Provides a series of nine principles that illustrate successful partnerships. States that the more evident these principles are on a given concept, the greater the likelihood that effective partnerships have…

The characteristics and functions of sound undergraduate and masters level programs in geography are examined. The author believes that because the reputation and fate of a geography department are determined by non-geographers to a very large degree, there is an urgent need to promote the relevance of the discipline and to sell the…