The authors review a Granada Television Documentary entitled "State of the Nation: The Parliament" which presents the viewer with a comprehensive inside look at key decision making on a major government bill in the British Parliament. Suggestions for classroom use are provided. (DE)

As part of a course entitled "The Politics of Poverty," students at the University of Deleware worked in social work organizations for the poor. Analysis of the program's effectiveness as measured by an opinion survey of participating students is included. (DE)

The author distinguishes between the concepts of political socialization and political education. He argues that political socialization has come to dominate both our thinking and our teaching in the area of civic education. Suggestions for promoting political education are included. (DE)

The author describes a course in which undergraduate political science majors are taught to read international relations literature critically. Seven specific objectives in judging the literature are included. (DE)

Based on data gathered under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education in 1969, the political science community and its components -- faculty and undergraduate and graduate students -- are compared demographically and professionally with other discipline communities and the general academic population. (JH)

This course of study involves the description of foreign policy behavior and its domestic determinants for a variety of countries with respect to sixteen post-World-War-II issues. This descriptive process amplified by reading and class discussion culminates in a comparative analysis embodied in a formal research paper. (JH)

A take-home international relations final exam in the form of a group conversation allows the student to fill in opinions in the characters of "Me." In some instances real student responses have been included in "Me's" place, in others they have been left empty to perserve the flavor of an exam. (JH)

The Irish Republic as a laboratory for teachers of comparative politics has potential in the areas of revolution, culture, economic development, and general problem solving as illustrated by this article and its references. (JH)

An experiment to determine the impact of grades upon student evaluation of the teacher giving the grade indicates no significant difference in evaluation. However, students receiving grades lower than they actually earned in a particular course felt that they had benefitted less from the course in question. (JH)

A course on game preparation attended by students from different disciplines involved an exposure to various types of games, leading up to individual and group development of games. Two of the games developed, Senate and Disarmament, described in the article, exemplify the benefit in hard deductive reasoning required by game preparation. (JH)

An introductory political science course considering protest movements and alternatives for the redress of grievances requires student participation in groups through role-playing, discussion, and group presentations. The contemporary issues debated by the students are related by the instructor to traditional political science theory. (JH)

A course to provide experience in formulating and making recommendations for courses of action on realistic political problems can be achieved, through a problem-oriented group approach. Some of the pitfalls of this approach, described in this article, do not, however, negate its effectiveness. (Author/JH)

An exposure to the mechanics of teaching mathematics at the undergraduate level is given to mathematics graduate student in a summer or academic year seminar. It includes practice teaching, exam preparation, and grading experience to help graduate students become more effective teachers. (JH)

Certain educational objectives are proposed for undergraduate and graduate international studies education, investigating the interrelationship of these objectives and evaluating the appropriateness and adequacy of current texts for such objectives. (Author/KM)

Some of the skills, orientations, and awarenesses which are helpful in learning about politics and which can be learned through consideration of political happenings are described. (Author/KM)