With one of the posts, I noticed that the instructor wanted to know how to fit in a memorization learning environment to a three week course with alot of memorization. One of the tricks that I like to do to ensure a fun,learning environment (especially for my anatomy class)is to have mannequins from the esthetics department and have them to draw and write the muscles that control the facial, mouth, neck and shoulders. And then they would have to come up with a crazy acronym for each muscle and then recite it out to the class. Its very important for students to have fun with subjects that require alot of definitions and memorizations. I feel that it works best whenn you allow them to take control of their pace and it helps eliminate the negative words that we unconsciously do, because now we are controlling how they are thinking.