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Mark, Charles – 1984
Results of a study concerning teaching about the third world in colleges in Massachusetts are presented in this second of three volumes. Attention is focused on the survey of eastern Massachusetts and Boston, which involved 40 public and private institutions. Courses dealing with the third world were identified and estimates were made of the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum, College Programs
Download full textGoodman, Louis W.; And Others – 1994
This study seeks to examine the manner and extent to which the United States' leading higher education institutions are adapting their undergraduate international studies and area studies degree programs to the realities of the post Cold War world. The study used data provided by a 1994 survey of nearly 800 undergraduate international and area…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Colleges, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Mark, Charles – 1984
Results of a study concerning teaching about the third world in colleges in Massachusetts are presented in this first of three volumes. Attention is focused on the survey of central and western Massachusetts (1980-81), which involved 20 public and private institutions. Objectives were to determine what colleges are doing, how they organize their…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum, College Programs
Peer reviewedSwetnam, John J. – Human Organization, 1980
Data on a commercial and an agricultural Guatemalan population indicates most peasants derive income from both agricultural and nonagricultural sources. While disguised employment does not utilize labor at its most efficient level, development projects should complement traditional economic activities and recognize that diversion of peasant labor…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Developing Nations, Dropouts
Mark, Charles – 1984
Results of a study concerning teaching about the third world in colleges in Massachusetts are analyzed in this third of three volumes. A proposal for an academic certificate program in third world studies is also presented. Sixty colleges and universities in Massachusetts were surveyed (approximately half of such institutions in the state and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum, College Programs
Barrows, Thomas S.; And Others – 1981
The development, administration, and evaluation of a national survey to determine college students' understanding of world affairs are described in 12 articles that focus on survey measures, procedures, and results. Stephen F. Klein and Sheila M. Ager describe the issues examined by an assessment committee, their choice of an issues framework for…
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
