minicourse

Called "People and the Press," the program will be a minicourse in television journalism.

The book amounts to a minicourse in Asian cookery, with a vegetarian focus.

There is also a minicourse for beginners, with participants able to borrow a compass and a laminated map.

Each minicourse provided a model of specific classroom strategies or behaviors, gave teachers a chance to practice the strategies, and then provided feedback.

And Todd Zeile, the free-agent third baseman who is shifting to first, will be the star pupil in the minicourse.

"Every seventh grader is required to take a minicourse on coping, which is part of the school drug prevention approach," Mr. Miller said.

He embarked on his investigation after he took Dr. Pavlica's minicourse on holograms three years ago.

The teams settled into a home run derby after that, giving the crowd a minicourse in the way baseball is played today, in case they had missed a few years.

Mr. Viscovich, who runs the dining room (his cousin is the chef), reverentially slices off portions while offering a minicourse on the wonders of this delicacy.

In addition to classroom instruction, Marin Academy students undertake a number of non-traditional learning experiences such as minicourse, the Outings program and Vision Quest.

"Healing the Earth: An Emerging Spirituality", (12-session minicourse), Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1991.

A minicourse on Dadaism and Surrealism is offered from 11:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. Tuesdays to Feb. 16 for $10, or $4 a lecture.

The entries on the replica of the schooner Amistad offer a minicourse on American slavery and the nascent abolitionist movement, and those on the Niagara do the same thing for the War of 1812.

TALKING ABOUT WEATHER Appropriate to the Northeast's worst winter in memory, a four-part minicourse on the weather is being offered by the Holland-Brook Nature Center of the Connecticut Audubon Society this month.