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Marsden, Michael T.; And Others – 1979
This report on a curriculum project incorporating the study of the humanities and mass media is presented in four chapters. The first chapter is an overview and describes the three components of the curriculum project: (1) a new course entitled "Television as Popular Culture," (2) a team-taught course on media theory entitled "The Electric Media,"…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction
Schutz, Paul A. – 1989
The Humanities Project was a 2-year collaboration between the Austin Independent School District (Texas) and the University of Texas at Austin. The primary goals of the project were, first, to provide selected teachers with an opportunity for intensive study in selected works of world literature, and second, to help teachers with the development…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council, Austin. – 1979
This chronological summary describes the activities of the group that is developing CABOODLE, a children's educational television series in the arts and humanities, for the year 1978. Program areas reviewed include project personnel, project administration, curriculum design, physical facilities, materials and script development, research and…
Descriptors: Activities, Art Education, Childrens Television, Curriculum Development
Washington State Board for Community Coll. Education, Olympia. – 1982
This progress report reviews the third year of activities conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges as part of the Washington State Humanities Project. First, the report discusses the role of Center staff in advising on the project's organization and activities, reviewing materials, visiting campuses, and linking the project with…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Benefits
Washington State Board for Community Coll. Education, Olympia. – 1981
This report describes the activities of the Center for the Study of Community Colleges in Washington's Revitalizing the Humanities in the Community College Project. Introductory material describes the Center's role in the project with regard to designing and conducting surveys, planning and conducting faculty workshops focusing on strengthening…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Curriculum Development

Ashdown, Ellen – Change, 1979
Discussed is the difficulty encountered in teaching humanities to underprepared students at Florida A & M University, where 90 percent of the students are in the special admissions category that permits enrollment of students who score below the entrance requirement. Administrative neglect of the humanities is also addressed. (JMD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Black Students, Educational Problems, Educational Quality
Arns, Kathleen F., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1981
This collection of essays examines issues that educators must address to maintain occupational education's prominent role in the future. Kathleen F. Arns considers the implications of uncertain enrollment patterns, changing delivery systems, an uneasy economic climate, government policies, and collaboration efforts. The history of occupational…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Economic Climate
Hatala, Catherine C. – 1982
A program designed to improve the reading, writing, and thinking skills of low achieving poverty level high school juniors was developed for use in a Pennsylvania high school. The program uses the Pennsylvania Reading Comprehension Plan's four critical experiences of (1) responding to literature, (2) self-selected and sustained silent reading, (3)…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Disadvantaged Youth