Four units are included in this curriculum guide for a semester elective credit course in gourmet foods for high school juniors and seniors: (1) Introudction to the Course, and the Development of "A Gourmet," intended to facilitate defining and participating in planning the course program and goals, (2) "Basic Food Preparation for…

Examination of the history of secondary school English elective curricula--from their development and growth between 1962 and 1968, through their refinement and variation between 1968 and 1972, to their critical examination and decline between 1972 and 1977--can be summarized in six points. First, the curriculum was a logical development springing…

This study was undertaken to determine if high school females who elected an accelerated mathematics program could be distinguished from high school females who elected a regular mathematics program on the basis of parental modeling, parental reinforcement, and academic and career interests. Findings indicated that the groups were differentiated…

Seventy percent of the public schools in Southwest and West Central Minnesota voluntarily participated in a study of class size and course offerings available during the 1979-1980 school year for grades 10-12. Vocational education and special education courses were not included in the study because of their cooperative nature. The size of classes…

This document contains course descriptions of 37 elective English courses divided into five levels for sophomore, junior, and senior high school students--the higher levels having more difficult reading and more demanding work, and requiring better writing skills and more independent study habits. An explanation of the composition, grammar,…

The major purpose of this dissertation is to develop a new series of courses, within an elective English curriculum, which will both enhance the immediate lives of high school students and motivate a lifelong desire to read literature. The new literature program involves a series of five courses organized on the basis of five values of literature…

Developed as a quinmester unit for the high school on yearbook and magazine layout, this guide provides the teacher with suggested teaching strategies for a study of the theory and practice of page layout, photo cropping and editing, use of color and special effects, copy fitting and headline writing and fitting, and principles of typography.…

This study examined the effects of two instructional practices on cognitive response to three sonnets at the sense level of comprehension. The subjects were twelfth grade students in an elective English program who had not had work in poetry that year before the experiment. One teaching method dealt with morphological, lexical, and syntactical…

This document describes the background and design of a multidisciplinary health policy elective course. The course is designed to study alternatives for decisionmaking in health policy, and to understand how changes can be made in the delivery of health care. Following introductory material, the course syllabus, bibliography, faculty,…

This document describes the design and development of a structured elective program in English at Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School. It provides a brief analysis of the events which caused the curriculum change, a description of the development of a modified version of the elective system, and a description of the course offerings in…

Academic anxiety, person/group relations, and subject satisfaction were investigated in three secondary schools in various stages of curriculum reform: a traditional school, a school in which a short-course elective program was being implemented, and a school in which such a program was fully implemented. Attitude measures were completed by 482…

As this course introduces health professional students to the delivery of primary health care in a family setting, emphasis is placed on the principles and procedures of team development and maintenance and on the recognition of group dynamics, interaction, and communication processes in the team and family. (LBH)

Results of a questionnaire follow-up study of the employment and educational experiences of the graduates of the experimental Bachelor of Elected Studies (BES) program at Minnesota are reported. In spite of some differences, BES graduates compare favorably with regular liberal arts graduates. (Author/LBH)

Discusses challenges that business education can address by curriculum redesign. States that the needs are (1) employment skills, (2) elective opportunities, (3) changing the clerical image, (4) management training, (5) computer instruction planning, (6) microcomputers replacing typewriters, (7) public awareness, (8) business courses in middle…

Identifies problems involved in the implementation of a course designed to explore issues at the interface of technology and society. Suggests steps for successfully maintaining this type of program. (RT)