A course developed at Purdue University for freshmen engineering students includes lectures on topics of national concern to engineers, basic engineering laboratory experience, and career planning. (BB)

Describes an elective English course which involves readings and writing in new journalism style. (DD)

Describes a high school senior elective course on children's literature. (DD)

Describes two elective courses for juniors and seniors. (DD)

American studies in British schools touch on issues like democracy in political theory and practice, war and peace, race relations, the situations and feelings of the adolescent. Considers the implications for educational standards in Great Britain. (Author/RK)

Describes a technique for individualizing instruction in a public relations course that enrolls an average of 50 students each semester. (KS)

Summarizes students' and teachers' responses to a public relations internship program at North Texas State University. (KS)

Presents a proposed course in Engineering Graphics at the University of Louisville that integrates an innovative approach to design for manufacturing of new products with traditional topics on engineering graphics for manufacturing. Discusses the content of the course and its role in enhancing a student's competitive edge for the job market.…

Describes the work model construct for instructional design that is used to improve the designer's approach to curriculum or syllabus construction and as the basis for assessment systems that act in a complementary manner with instruction. Several examples of its use in syllabus construction are provided. (Author/LRW)

Describes the requirement (at the Penn State School of Communications) that public relations majors pass a tough journalism gatekeeper course. Discusses briefly the course, its usefulness to public relations students, and the advantages to journalism majors of the presence of public relations students. (SR)

Describes the development and maintenance of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing's (ATTW) Web site for course syllabi ranging from communication theory to Web design at Texas Tech University. Examines the rationale behind a central site; site design issues; updating method; and software used--Rich Text Format (RTF), RTFtoHTML, Fetch…

Discusses the use of case analysis methods as an entire semester course in aviation. Provides a description of the course as taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha including the pros and cons of conducting the class and a review of how students evaluated the course. (Author/JOW)

Describes in detail the development of a course at the Syracuse University College of Law titled General Counsel Applied Learning Course. Its aim is to meet the need of corporate America for new lawyers versed in the functions, techniques, and legal environment of in-house counsel. (EV)

Describes the features of and assessment instruments for a new conceptual physics course for non-science majors called 'Wonders of Technology', developed at the Virginia Commonwealth University. (Author/KHR)