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Direct linkWitkowsky, Kathy – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
Long known as a college-football powerhouse, the University of Alabama (UA) is now considered a model for institutions seeking to maintain or boost their academic quality even as enrollments increase and budgets are squeezed. According to Carol Twigg, president of the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT), which has been a significant…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Introductory Courses, Algebra, Spanish
Peer reviewedBarrow, Geoffrey R. – ADFL Bulletin, 1981
Describes two NEH sponsored workshops for the development of foreign language and literature programs which took place at the San Francisco and Houston MLA meetings in 1979 and 1980. Resulting efforts to strengthen foreign language programs as essential components of humanistic education are illustrated by reports from 1979 workshop participants.…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction
Download full textHult, Susan, Ed.; Wilson, Ned M., Ed. – Community College Humanities Review, 1998
The "Community College Humanities Review" is a forum for scholarly work focusing on research, curriculum change, and developments within the humanities disciplines. The fall 1998 issue offers the following articles: (1) "Feminist Currents and Confluence in Southern and Latin America, Women's Narrative: Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Environmental Education, Gender Issues, Humanities
Peer reviewedAchberger, Karen R. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1993
Outlines a program at St. Olaf College which allows language majors and others with language skills to take required humanities courses in German. This program offers students a chance to apply German skills that they have and at the same time meet their general education or major requirements. (LET)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, German, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction
Peer reviewedWolkomir, Richard – Change, 1980
St. Anselm College's new core humanities program includes as a language requirement a special culture and civilization segment. The Native Speaker Program is described. Students meet once a week with native speakers. The textbooks contain magazine articles from the countries under study. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Core Curriculum, Cultural Education, Degree Requirements
Medina, Elizabeth R. – 1985
Courses in Spanish for nurses at Loretto Heights College in Colorado combine language instruction, cross-cultural studies, instruction in medical problems particular to certain groups, medical systems and philosophy, and participation in a college-wide interdisciplinary program entitled "Values in Concert." In this program, sets of three…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Higher Education, Humanistic Education
Cheney, Lynne V. – 1987
An extensive study of humanities education in the nation's public schools, commissioned by the United States Congress, concludes that history, literature, and languages are inadequately taught, and most students fail to learn important knowledge about their shared past and culture. Data from a nation-wide survey reveal gross ignorance of major…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Core Curriculum, Culture, Curriculum Development
Schlack, Marilyn; And Others – 1993
The papers in this collection describe partnership programs and projects involving Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan. The first paper, "The Arcadia Commons Partnership: The Community College and Economic Redevelopment," by Marilyn Schlack, describes the Arcadia Commons, a business-education park in downtown Kalamazoo,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Development, Consortia
