Integration of subject matters habitually taught in separate courses is one of the major strands of contemporary curricular reform. The teaching of basic skills "across the curriculum," widely implemented in writing instruction, has been extended to ma thematics, foreign languages, and as two of this group of projects show, ethics. Whether working with beginning students in a broad range of fields (Community College of Aurora) or in a single professional program (University of Minnesota School of Nursing), faculty are discovering that practical ethics is best taught in context.

Kennesaw State College illustrates another kind of subject matter integration, the teaching of general education mathematics in the context of a familiar environmental problem. This same issue-oriented approach to teaching basic principles appears in t he University of Oregon's biology course for non-majors.

16. The Community College of Aurora: Integrating Ethics Across the Curriculum .

17. University of Minnesota: Ethics Education for Baccalaureate Nursing Students-- Multi-Course Sequential Learning .

18. Kennesaw State College: Earth Algebra .

19. University of Oregon: Workshop Biology for Non-Majors--Promoting Scientific Literacy Through Investigative Laboratories and Issue-Oriented Activities.

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