The two following projects reflect the current ferment in the training of high-level practitioners in many fields. They respond to perceptions that the content of the curriculum is not fully consistent with changes in practice. Thus the Georgetown Law Center experiments with a curriculum that, among other innovations, puts less emphasis on "black letter" law, and more on regulatory law and the social science theory that informs the practice of law. The California School of Professional Psychology, recognizing that their graduates' practices are increasingly multiracial, has thoroughly revised its curriculum to prepare students for that reality. Both projects illustrate the efforts by post-baccalaureate professional school faculty to look more carefully at the world in which their graduates will practice, and to come up with strategies more finely tuned to that world.

30. California School of Professional Psychology at Alameda: Multicultural Education in Professional Psychology.

31. Georgetown University Law Center: Reform of the First-Year Curriculum for United States Law Schools.

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