A number of reasons could no doubt be found for why the study of communication has been so fragmented over the years. R. Blanchard and W. Christ have indicated that when mass communication courses were first developed, those courses were generally located in departments "offering vocationally based instruction." Speech communication and…

Whether or not environmental concerns provide a visable and continuing basis of university organization is the situation scrutinized in this speech. Apparently part of the problem has been the generation of some theme or model around which a core of interested faculty and students could work. It is implied that some conceptual organization of an…

Discusses teaching science at the secondary and college levels and proposes a one-year unified science course organized around the human system. It would emphasize the basic principles of biology, chemistry, and physics. (SL)

Describes problems encountered in a graduate level interdisciplinary environmental education program conducted at Johns Hopkins University. (SL)

Many anthropologists believe that anthropology stands to gain from devoting greater attention to history and historical questions. A successful synthesis of anthropology and history would not be difficult to achieve for several reasons. First, the two disciplines share fundamentally similar subject matters. Anthropology is the exploration of the…

After a two-week introductory period, participants in the Unified Studies Program at Boston State College will engage in a study of eight important institutions chosen by students at a planning session in November. Each institution will be dealt with for one full week. After the spring vacation, small groups (4 or 5 people) will engage in…

There are at least five models for the way that learning environments are structured: (1) autocratic, (2) traditional liberal, (3) open classroom, (4) unified education, and (5) free school. The Unified Studies Program tries to blend the models in the middle. At the same time, unified education has some unique qualities that the program also tries…

Discussed are the theoretical bases of a university social ecology program expressed in biology, sociology, and psychology. It emphasizes man as a biological organism interacting in a cultural-physical environment. Since the program is multidisciplinary and community-oriented the organization is by problem area such as man-environment interactions…

Presents an integrated chemistry curriculum based upon major concepts. (SL)

The philosophy of Unified Education is holistic, unidisciplinary, and generalistic. The problems raised by these attributes are the attendant difficulties in collection/analysis/projection on a time/content grid; the flux of methodological ground rules; and the tentativeness of generalists to project while they are in a stage of collection and…

A "nuclear arms race semester" achieved depth and breadth when several single-discipline approaches to nuclear studies were unified through an integrating seminar. Components included American history, freshmen composition, physics, and the seminar. The program was successful for students and faculty, supporting unified studies approach…

Reviews the basic structure of unified studies, which includes ideas and philosophies common to science/technology/society (STS), holistic education, and integrated/transdisciplinary education as an STS organizing principle for elementary teacher preparation. (MKR)

The Unified Studies Program began at Boston State College in September of 1974. Its model is based on team-teaching, learning contracts, small interdisciplinary seminars, and other open-classroom and unified educational learning/teaching techniques. Boston State College had been compelled to shift its academic assumptions because of financial…

There is a need to examine in a positive way what has been done in the interest of articulation among the various levels of higher education. For too long, those in higher education have tended to look only at the negative side of the picture and have ignored the successes. This article is an attempt to present some of the advances made in recent…

This paper focuses on the "Understanding Goals" element from the "Teaching for Understanding" framework. The study featured a one-year study program covering colonial America and integrating history, English, anthropology, geography, and the arts. The paper presents: (1) a definition of "Understanding Goals"; (2) a…