A translation course on the intermediate college level of instruction is described. The author considers translation to be a skills course which should be among the options open to college students, and stresses the importance of the course. The course activities move from articles of a general scientific nature, basically concerned with…

An English as second language (ESL) student at the college level must learn to write adequate compositions. However, most ESL composition texts focus on grammar and sentence structure. A method is proposed for teaching composition to advanced ESL students which reorders the accepted sequencing of materials. Rather than proceeding from sentence to…

Values and value awareness are central dimensions of the philosophy program at LaGuardia Community College. The broad and fundamental values of the program include the development of self-awareness, the recognition and overcoming of confusion and alienation, and the emergence of clarity and integration. Philosophy (seen as the process of critical…

Differences in grades received by students in different sections of the same college course were evaluated at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in fall 1983 and compared to spring 1983 findings. After determining grades for each section of a particular course, the chi-square test for "k" independent samples was applied to the data to…

Content analysis of connected instructional discourse depends on the fundamental distinction between the content to be learned ("intrinsic") and the content intended only to support the learning processes ("mathemagenic"). Depending on the expected outcome of learning and the learner's entering competencies, the nature and…

This document is an abstract of a speech delivered before the American School Health Association, and describes in an extended outline a two-credit-hour undergraduate pilot course for teacher trainees in "Smoking and Health." The pilot course was developed to help future teachers deal more effectively with the problems of smoking education.…

The guidelines provided in this paper are intended to help teachers develop a separate course on oral business communication skills that would follow a course on written business communication. Following a review of research corroborating the need for a specialized business speech course, suggestions are enumerated concerning course objectives,…

With the "publish or perish" atmosphere of graduate study, a student without a publications list has a difficult time in the job market. Graduate programs in reading should include coursework that will help students break into print. The content of such courses at Rutgers University (New Jersey) and at the University of Houston (Texas)…

Given the increased popular and academic interest in futuristic topics, interested instructors should prepare for teaching futures studies courses. In doing so, teachers can begin by acquainting themselves with relevant literature and by participating, if possible, in the activities of the World Future Society and other organizations devoted to…

An interdisciplinary, team-taught, modularized series of courses was designed and implemented at Teachers College of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to teach educational research methodology to graduate students. The course is composed of seven one-semester-hour modules. All doctoral students are required to take Foundations of Research (an…

The intellectual content of freshman English includes both the subject of writing itself and the subject the student writes about. Writing has often focused on personal subjects with the assumption that the student knows himself or herself and that the student has developed a point of view allowing intelligent writing. A second source of subject…

Communication depends both on content (the information conveyed in a message) and on relationship. If either aspect is missing, communication deteriorates. This principle has been tested in industrial settings and is also valid for the classroom. Two processes for implementing these principles are management by objectives and Likert's Systems Four…

A content analysis was performed on 3,134 questions from 62 examinations given in the mass communications and society courses in colleges throughout the United States. The questions were analyzed and categorized on the basis of three general groups: geographical reference, media reference, and topic reference. The findings revealed the following:…

This document presents a week-by-week syllabus for an 18-week high school technical theatre course. This course, which may be expanded to one year or reduced to nine weeks, emphasizes having the student learn by doing, so that the teacher eventually becomes freer to concentrate on play-directing responsibilities. The document also discusses the…

Examinations of 50 general science writing course syllabi used at 32 schools (55% response rate to a survey of 58 colleges and universities listing science writing courses in their curricula) reveal a wide range of course objectives and a varied use of resource materials. The emphasis is necessarily on writing skills, although a number of the…