Examines the methodology, professional standards and expectations, and evolution of the discipline. Research skills, writing skills and styles, and historiography are central themes. For students who function below college level in vocabulary. Instructional strategies focus on word pronunciation, word definitions, structural analysis of words and words in context. For students who test below the college level in reading.
Instructional strategies focus on the literal, inferential, and critical comprehension levels.
Vocabulary development is also stressed. For students writing below college level expectancy. An introduction to the problems of war and possible approaches to its abolition. War is placed in its historical perspective. Representatives of a number of academic disciplines will discuss their contributions to the making of peace.