Advanced English Composition: Research for Writers
Introduces topics on electronic documentation, the research essay, and technical writing along with up-to-date, bright new examples. The programs feature new narrative and all-new video that includes interviews with people knowledgeable about writing in their professional fields.

The Africans
Explores contemporary Africa as a product of three major influences-an indigenous heritage, Western culture, and Islamic culture.

Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Provides an extraordinary exploration of statistical processes, stressing data-centered topics rather than the more traditional path from probability to formal inference.

America in Perspective: US History Since 1877
Focuses on the development of the United States since 1877, chronologically analyzing the people, events, and forces that made American what it is today.

An American Adventure: US History to 1877
Focuses on the human story as well as the political and economic stories of America bringing to life the conflicts and consequences of our nation's early history by weaving together events, places, people, art and artifacts.

American Cinema
Presents a wide range of perspectives and comprehensive, multi-dimensional view of film making, teaching students to become more active and critical viewers as they question the images of America they see on the movie screen and redefine their own relationship to those images.

American Entrepreneur Today
Offers a rare opportunity for students to listen and learn first hand about entrepreneurship from innovators who describe how and why the started their businesses, their ideas that worked and the ones that didn't, and the pure satisfaction of their ultimate achievements.

Americas
Presents a multidisciplinary study of the twentieth century political, economic, social, and cultural history of Latin American and the Caribbean.

Art of the Western World
Examines the works of art that have come to define the Western visual tradition from ancient Greece to the present day helping students to appreciate the formal qualities, iconography, and technical achievements of extraordinary monuments.

Beginnings
Examines teaching and caring for children with disabilities through age five.

Beliefs and Believers
Surveys the religious and secular beliefs that comprise the major "world views" today including: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and others.

A Biography of America
Features prominent historians in thought-provoking debates and lectures will encourage learners to think critically about the forces that have shaped America. The extensive array of visual images and footage enhances the biographical and narrative approach of the series, allowing learners to get an intimate look at the people and places they're studying.

Business and The Law
Provides a comprehensive overview of business law. Topics include sales, commercial paper, government regulation, employment practices, and consumer and environmental protection.

By the Numbers
Covers mathematical foundations using innovative case studies and techniques applying them to basic business concepts such as retailing, finance, accounting, and communication by numbers.

Career Advantage
Helps students gain the self-knowledge they need to enter the job force and maintain a successful and rewarding career.

The Chinese
Studies the ancient heritage of the Chinese people as they grapple with the problems of modernization.

Choices and Change: Macroeconomics
Focuses on the economy as a whole, featuring business professionals, consumers, and other experts who discuss the development of economic theories.

Choices and Change: Microeconomics
Focuses on the various input and output markets and includes the theory of supply and demand, price of the factors of production, and income distribution theory. International aspects are included whenever applicable.

The Civil War
Captures the extraordinary drama of this enormous national catastrophe through diaries, newspaper accounts, letters, photographs, and exquisite cinematography.

College Algebra: In Simplest Terms
Explores the concepts and practical, real-life applications of algebra. An innovative and varied approach to instruction using location and documentary segments, studio presentations, and state-of-the-art computer graphics.

Connect with English
Uses a dramatic story to teach English language skills while presenting the geographical, cultural, social, and economic diversity America. Designed to be used with students having multiple levels of ESL proficiency.

The Constitution: That Delicate Balance
Poses difficult Socratic hypothetical questions on various constitutional issues and public policy to distinguished panels of experts.

Crossroads Café
Uses a combination of video and print to meet the needs of learners at low-beginning through high-intermediate levels of English. The multi-level approach enables learners to develop English skills within a familiar context by looking for contextual meaning and the use of English for genuine communication rather than recitation.

Dealing with Diversity
Explores America's many diverse populations. Enables students to recognize common elements of humanity and shows how our society is actually strengthened by its cultural diversity.

Death: A Personal Understanding
Investigates the ways in which we try to comprehend death: psychologically, spiritually, medically, socially, philosophically, and emotionally. The series examines death within the context of current topical issues, including AIDS, death by violence, suicide, assisted suicide, palliative and hospice care, end-of-life decision-making, and ways children face death.

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
Gives students full communicative proficiency in Spanish-listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Adopting the format of the highly popular Hispanic telenovela, the course exposes students to the rich and diversified cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

Discovering Psychology
Covers the fundamental principles and concepts of psychology, including brain and behavior, sensation, perception, conditioning, learning, cognition, motivation, emotion, life-span development, self, identity, sex, and gender. Includes original footage of classic experiments, interviews with renowned psychologists, and emerging research.

Earth Revealed: Introductory Geology
Studies the Earth's physical processes and properties, with emphasis on the scientific theories behind geological principles. Location footage at major geological sites around the world illustrates the dramatic as well as the more subtle and on-going elements of geology.

Economics U$A
Establishes a clear relationship between abstract economic principles and concrete human experiences through interviews, commentary, analysis and case studies.

Educating Able Learners
Describes and models the methods teachers can use to enhance the potential of gifted students in the regular classroom, in pull-out settings, and in individualized development programs.

The Effective Teacher
Describes the practices and strategies needed to continually evaluate and improve teaching skills.

English Composition: Writing for an Audience
Incorporates the comments of a variety of writers on generating ideas, organizing thoughts, drafting, and revising to help students see the concepts from different points of view. One might introduce a theory and process of each of these topics, while another reinforces the lessons, explaining how writing and reading are an integral part of everyday processes.

Ethics in America
Examines contemporary ethical conflicts through highly charged case studies. Students are invited to engage in real ethical dilemmas as they are given a grounding in the language, concepts, and traditions of ethics.

Every Child Can Succeed
Helps educators re-focus their efforts to assist disadvantaged children in achieving academic success.

Examined Life: An Introduction to Philosophy
Presents the philosophic wisdom of the western world by examining the "Great Questions" that have intrigued philosophers from antiquity to the present. Using writings of past philosophers, archival footage of more recent 20th century philosophers, and interviews with contemporary philosophers, the series underscores how these classic questions still reverberate in modern man.

Exploring the World of Music
Creates an understanding of the essential nature of music and its broad international cultural applications. The programs explore the commonalties and the diverse uses of the basic musical elements-melody, rhythm, texture, timbre, harmony-that bind all music together, and reveal how these tools are used to provide sounds of infinite variety.

Eyes on the Prize
Focuses on the period of American history from World War II to the present, providing a comprehensive history of the people, the stories, the events, and the issues of civil rights struggle in America.

Faces of Culture
Explores ethnocentric myths and stereotypes and reveals how every society is based on an integrated culture that satisfies human needs and facilitates survival.

Family Communication
Examines the ways in which family members communicate, make decisions, settle conflict, and learn to relate to one another. The course explores family interaction patterns through discussion, exercises, and the commentary of guests, and is especially relevant to today's student because of the profound changes that are affecting the family unit today.

Fokus Deutsch
Introduces students to the study of German language and culture through mini-dramas, contemporary and historical documentaries, and interviews with speakers of German. Embedded within are the stories of everyday people, who provide us with glimpses of German life and culture as they struggle with issues and problems familiar to us all.

For All Practical Purposes
Focuses on the importance and usefulness of mathematics while introducing concepts and quantitative methods in familiar settings. Celebrates mathematics as the language of modern problem solving, from rocketry to running a small business.

For the Love of Wisdom
Presents a global, multicultural introduction to philosophy, beginning with the Western discourse and exploring variations of this theme across geography and centuries. Integrates Asian and African philosophy, as well as women philosophers.

French in Action
Immerses students in French culture through a romantic comedy filmed in France. Also contains photos, cartoons, graphics, film clips, interviews, and excerpts from television and advertising drawn from the French-speaking world.

Growing Old in a New Age
Provides an understanding of the processes of aging, old age as a stage of life, and the impact of aging on society. Encourages students to examine their attitudes toward aging and older people.

Human Geography
Presents some of the forces that are changing the shape of our world as we approach the 21st Century. Uses a case study approach and covers such topics as mass migration, sustainability of resources, the culture of entertainment, the role of multinational corporations, and political and religious fragmentation.

Inside the Global Economy
Highlights the prominent forces and core concepts of international economics and the relationships of nations and economic policy. Offers fresh perspectives on major world events of the last 40 years and recent economic milestones, such as the EEC & the economic transformation of Russia and Eastern Europe.

Internet Literacy
Combines multiple media to create a one-term, integrated learning package which makes use of the Internet to teach students about the Internet.

Introduction to Business
Provides a broad introduction to the ways business enterprises function within the U.S. economic framework. It is intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of business. The course is a general survey of the topic that serves as a foundation for more advanced courses in the area of business. Students will learn about the fundamentals of economics, entrepreneurship, management, marketing, and business law.

Introduction to Business Communication
As we move into the 21st century, rapid change, technology, and information overload are creating an environment where individual communication effectiveness is more critical than ever. Taught by Laree Kiely, Ph.D., an award-winning professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, this course will focus on the basic communication skills necessary for success.

Introduction to Business Math
Designed for students with a minimal math background. It shows how understanding the simplest mathematical concepts-whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages-has immediate benefits for managing money, understanding debt, making smart investments, and contributing to any company from a start-up to a global corporation. A basic knowledge of numerical concepts will help students translate tough questions to simple equations about running a business or building a better life.

Introduction to Business Statistics
A rich interactive learning experience designed to teach the basic quantitative tools and strengthen the aptitudes students need to meet today's business challenges. Students learn how to find new information, organize ideas, analyze and synthesize data, apply their new knowledge, and solve real-world business problems.

Introduction to Computer Literacy
This course is designed to give novice computer users a working familiarity with personal computers in business and personal settings. It requires no prior computer experience and convers typical PC tasks, problems, and applications, including basic word processing, desktop publishing, graphics, database management, spreadsheets, using the Internet, and email.

Introduction to Entrepreneurship: Building the Dream
Examines how entrepreneurs approach both business and the world at large. The course discusses ways of testing the feasibility of an idea, and lays out a set of tools that students can use to take their dream from concept to reality. The course also helps students develop an execution strategy-a business plan that makes profitable use of what they have learned.

Introduction to Macroeconomics
Teaches the essentials of macroeconomics theory and practice by combining the instruction of Professor Robert Connolly (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) with state-of-the-art graphics and real-life documentary stories that make the big issues pertinent and understandable.

Introduction to Management
Provides an introduction to the theory and execution of today's management styles and functions. Designed for the beginning student in management or the working professional, it is a valuable overview of the opportunities and problems faced by today's managers.

Introduction to Marketing
Introduces principles of marketing goods and services. Topics include promotion, placement, and pricing strategies for products. Upon completion, students should be able to apply marketing principles in organizational decision-making.

Introduction to Microeconomics
Familiarizes students with the basic concepts of microeconomics with particular emphasis on applicability to business problems. The course features documentary-style interviews with executives and behind the scenes tours of leading companies bringing the principles of microeconomics to life.

It's Strictly Business
Brings the world of business to life by providing students with a general survey of business on a national and an international scale. The course identifies the roles and responsibilities of business in a modern society and focuses on selected disciplines and processes within the business community.

Joseph Campbell: Transformations of Myth Through Time
Introduces students to Joseph Campbell, author, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, who is an inspiration to people of all walks of life the world over. This course consists of programs selected from over 50 hours of Campbell lectures and is introduced by "THE HERO'S JOURNEY," an award-winning biographical film. Through these programs and the accompanying specially prepared academic materials, students will gain a deeper understanding of mythology's role in human history.

Legal Environment of Business
Provides a sound legal foundation that students can use to understand the laws and regulations affecting today's businesses. This course features expert commentary from leading legal authorities and dramatic case studies of landmark judicial decisions affecting social policy as well as the environment in which all businesses operate.

Literary Visions
Brings literature to life with dramatizations of individual works and readings of literary passages. This introduction to literature incorporates both contemporary and traditional works and emphasizes writing about literature as a way for students to learn and use advanced composition techniques.

Living Literature
Introduces undergraduate students to the primary literary texts that have shaped Western culture; challenges students to think critically and creatively about that cultural tradition and their place as individuals within it; and demonstrates the vitality of classic texts that transcend time and place.

Living with Health
Encourages students to take a proactive stance toward maintaining health, with focus on the lifestyle components that encourage wellness. Encompasses all areas of health: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual.

The Mechanical Universe
Uses advanced computer animation, scientific experiments, and a full array of visual techniques to teach classical mechanics. This course helps meet different students' needs, from the basic requirements of liberal arts students to the rigorous demands of science and engineering majors.

The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
Uses advanced computer animation, scientific experiments, and a full array of visual techniques to build on the lessons of The Mechanical Universe in teaching electricity and magnetism, relativity, waves and optics, heat and thermodynamics, and modern physics.

The Mind
Explores the workings of the human mind and the relationship between neuroscience and psychology, offering a comprehensive look at mind and its corollary-behavior.

Multimedia Literacy
Defines multimedia, explores its use, and discusses the impact of it's growth on society. Surveying applications across the curriculum the course provides a multimedia toolbox and demonstrates how to create and publish multimedia applications. The course also discusses multimedia frontiers, emerging technology, and societal issues including human impact, regulation, copyright, fair use, equity, cost, and universal access.

News Writing
Shares the insights of the nation's top writers, editors, broadcasters, and academics on how to be successful in the news business. Students learn proven, as well as new, less conventional journalistic techniques and writing styles.

Nutrition Pathways
Presents information about nutrition and nutrition-related issues such as obesity and fitness. Students learn the importance of nutrition in their own lives. Aimed at both the general student population and health care professionals.

On Common Ground
Delves into the complexities of U.S. history and government using dramatizations which take place in a typical American city. In each episode a diverse cast of characters must enlist principles of law and government to resolve their challenges and conflicts. Each episode focuses on a core civics theme and includes a documentary break called Turning Points, which takes a "real world" look at the themes explored in the drama.

Out of The Past: An Introduction to Archaeology
Explores the history, methods, and techniques of archaeology and the way archaeologists use these techniques to reconstruct ancient social, economic, and political institutions.

The Pacific Century
Introduces the modern history, economics, politics, and cultures of the Pacific Basin region and explores how it has emerged as a principal political and economic center for the upcoming century.

People's Century
Provides unique insight into the turbulent events of the last 100 years-a time of both social and political transformation. Combined with rare archival film, the course tells the story through personal testimony from people who have lived through the sweeping changes that have shaped our lives.

Personal Finance and Money Management
Includes information on all the financial decisions the average person faces: budgeting, buying, home ownership, income tax, investments, insurance, wills, and trust.

Planet Earth
Studies the state of our planet-its interior, oceans, continents, mountains and volcanoes, energy and mineral resources, climate and atmosphere. The series unifies earth science, astronomy, and comparative planetology into an integrated discipline that relies on common scientific methods.

The Power of Place
Presents case studies and considers the approaches of physical, political, historical, economic, and cultural geography while building an understanding of the eleven regions of the world and their interconnections.

Preserving the Legacy: Industrial Process and Waste Stream Management
Explores hazardous waste sites, industrial facilities, equipment, and technologies that would normally be inaccessible to students. Computer-animated sequences and interviews with environmental professionals provide a fascinating look into the science of waste management.

Preserving the Legacy: Introduction to Environmental Technology
Explores environmental technology from a global perspective with a focus on the daily human interactions experienced by field professionals as they deal with issues such as worker safety, environmental toxins, and environmentally induced illness.

Principles of Accounting
Introduces students to the basic concepts in accounting theory and practice, and fundamental theories and applications of partnership, corporate, and personal accounting.

Principles of Marketing Management
Introduces upper-level students to marketing management, the process by which goods, services, and products are defined, distributed, priced, promoted, and sold to customers and consumers.

Race to Save the Planet
Explores the human side of international environmental issues and the delicate balance between progress and the preservation of the environment.

Read, Write & Research
Covers essays, research papers, writing across the curriculum, writing for business and writing about literature.

Renaissance: The Origins of the Modern West
Explores the dramatic transformations that occurred in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries that affected every aspect of society and laid the foundation for the emergence of the modern Western world.

Rural Communities
Examines the significance of rural America in our history, economy, government, and culture, and the dramatic transition to the global economy.

The Sales Connection: Principles of Selling
Presents valuable training and insights on how to identify sales prospects and develop and maintain good sales relationships. Principles are demonstrated in practice through first-hand stories of professional sales people.

Schools and Society
Helps viewers learn to enlist and use resources available in their community to provide foundational support for students and schools. The course confronts some of the major social issues facing our schools such as teen pregnancy, drugs and gangs, and explores professional topics such as performance assessment, school funding and privatization, and teaching critical skills.

Seasons of Life
Chronicles major developmental changes in the lives of people as they move from infancy and childhood into adolescence, adulthood, and late adulthood.

Shaping America: US History to 1877
Explores the beginnings of American history, from early European settlement through the resolution of the Civil War. Video content features over sixty nationally known historians, chosen for their individual expertise, diverse backgrounds and viewpoints of early American history.

The Sociological Imagination: An Alternative Approach
Demonstrates the multifaceted nature and depth of sociology by presenting a wide variety of sociological thinking. Interactive web-based activities are integrated into each unit of study to extend and enhance the learning experience.

The Sociological Imagination: Introduction to Sociology
Studies groups, communities, institutions, and social situations that illustrate major sociological concepts. Includes expert commentary from leading sociologists.

Something Ventured: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Small Business Management
Surveys the tools entrepreneurs need to compete effectively in the world of business. Gives an "over-the-shoulder" look at what it is like to start and operate a small business. Topics include marketing, finances, and government obligations.

The Story of English
Traces the history of the language that has become the most influential tongue the world has ever known.

Taking the Lead: The Management Revolution
Provides an overview of the leadership qualities needed for success in today's economy. Covers major functions of management: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Explores such topics as TQM, cultural diversity, social responsiveness and ethics, and multinational markets.

Teaching Students with Special Needs
Assists educators in identifying and assessing the needs of secondary-level students who have learning problems.

Unseen Life on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology
Explores basic microbial principles and how microorganisms affect everything from medicine to environmental issues to global politics. Dynamic visuals such as animations and scanning electron micrographs make complex topics easier to grasp, and case studies from today's headlines-including DNA testing and dramatic battles against dangerous viruses-show real-world applications of these concepts.

Vietnam: A Television History
Provides a full record of the conflict-from background on Vietnam and its people, through the French presence, to a chronology of the period from 1945 to 1975-and examines the impact of the war on American society in the years that followed.

Voices and Visions
Celebrates the brilliant tradition of modern American poets from Whitman and Dickinson to Plath and Lowell and their contributions to our national life. Documentary, dramatic, and experimental film techniques convey poetry as a dynamic, living art form.

Voices in Democracy
Helps students acquire a general knowledge of the nature, scope, purpose, structure, and organization of the national government. Covers topics such as: the Constitution, intergovernmental relations, political parties and interest groups, and the responsibilities of the various branches of government

The Western Tradition
Spans the influential pre-Western civilizations through the classical period of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium to the high Middle Ages in the first term. The second term begins with the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, and continues through industrial modernization to the present.

The Whole Child: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years
Focuses on the individual child and how the teacher or caregiver can foster physical, emotional social, creative, and cognitive development. The course provides nurturing instruction on the proper care techniques for children from infancy to five years of age and highlights teaching approaches and interactions for children from multicultural backgrounds and at all developmental levels, including those with disabilities and special needs.

Women and Social Action
Helps students identify, understand and defuse gender stereotypes and barriers. A central goal is to empower women to take charge of their own lives. Topics include: sexuality, socialization, self-esteem, leadership, motherhood, and transcending victimization models of feminism and femininity.

The World of Abnormal Psychology
Explores the complex causes, manifestations, and treatments of common behavior disorders. Shows abnormal behavior along a continuum from functional to dysfunctional. Interviews with patients give students an invaluable perspective on the emotional toll paid by those who suffer from behavior disorders. Expert analysis by mental health professionals presents multiple approaches to treatment.

A World of Art: Works in Progress
Gives students deeper insight into the personality of the artist, the artist's working process, as well as the works of art themselves. Students will see art as a process of critical thinking and problem solving instead of an inaccessible act of genius. The goal of this course is to make looking at art a more meaningful proposition that has relevance in students' lives.

The World of Chemistry
Stresses a humanistic approach to chemistry while de-emphasizing the mathematical concepts. Developed for non-science majors, the programs present a unified view of chemistry.

Worlds of Childhood
Surveys the cognitive, social, and physical development of children in cultural and historical contexts through profiles of children and families around the world, discussions with leading experts, and research.

A Writer's Exchange
Provides basic skills for academic and business writing. Offers an innovative approach, with a computer-based option, to learning and improving writing skills by presenting real-life examples and dramatizations of the writing process.