This study examines the educational and personal effects of the New York State College Intern Program, designed to provide college students with first-hand knowledge of the legislative process and functions. The internship experience had no significant influence on students' patterns of interest and values. (Author/RM)

To determine the dominant topic areas of political science urbanists, questionnaires were sent to a sample of 119 college professors. Urban politics faculty have retained their concern for topics not currently fashionable in research, such as local government institutions, the pluralist-elitist controversy, urban ethnicity, and metro government.…

This article describes an experimental teacher training program for political science teaching assistants at the University of California at Los Angeles. (Author/RM)

The author discusses how he taught the difficult abstract ideas of formal political theory to his students with a minimum of discomfort. (Author/RM)

Intended to aid teachers in presenting spatial modeling to students over a series of lectures and then applying it at various points during a political science course, this paper describes and explains the use of spatial models for understanding voting behavior based on microeconomic theories. (ND)

Goal selection and specification for a course on international relations are discussed by explicating related problems and issues, learning theories, and educational objectives. (ND)

Describes how individually paced instruction (IPI) works, the major assumptions of IPI and difficulties encountered with them, and problems with measuring only behavioral objectives. Concludes that IPI is useful for courses that have fixed knowledge content. (ND)

Proposes that science fiction novels contribute to study of political science, and discusses specific novels and their application to political science. (ND)

Presents comparative 1973 survey data on teaching African politics, Latin American politics, and political development courses in the United States. The authors investigated the (1) use of teaching techniques and evaluation of their effectiveness, and (2) theoretical approaches to political development that were found useful. (Author/ND)

Recounting experiences of teaching both middle-upper class students at a private, residential university and middle-working-lower class students at a public, commuting university, the author found that both student types prefer an authoritarian teacher who also offers some opportunity for personal compulsion in the classroom. (ND)

A program, called "Decision Making in the Public Sector" that uses simulated internships, was designed to provide IBM participants with firsthand exposure to the government actors, institutions, and processes involved in the formation and implementation of public policy. (Author/ND)

Description of an exercise introduced during a section of an American government course at Western Illinois University dealing with elections, campaigning, or public opinion in which each student develops his own hypothesis and tests it by using the school's 360-50 computer. (Author/ND)

A review of American government textbooks shows that significant change has occurred concerning the content of newer textbooks, specifically the way they treat theories of elitist groups and systems analysis. (ND)

Lectures and classroom games are compared in terms of fact and concept, of inducing change in certain political attitudes, and of student evaluations in an introductory American government course. The results are inconclusive. (DE)

Drawing upon the large national surveys conducted in 1969 by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, along with data collected more recently, the authors provide a basis for understanding distributions of political attitudes among political scientists. Political science is one of the more left-of-center academic disciplines. (Author/DE)