Are the humanities relevant enough to the average undergraduate to be included as a required part of a general education program? The University of Idaho (UI) is currently ten years into the challenge of implementing a cross-disciplinary, university-wide general education program--the UI Core--that has the attention, if not always the support, of…

Describes "The College Course," a course designed by six Vassar professors to advance the goals of liberal education, through interdisciplinary, integrative, and synoptic study while laying a basis for later liberal arts studies. Considers the possibility of adapting the model to other disciplines and institutional settings. (DMM)

Asserts the need for new undergraduate culture studies textbooks that maintain broad historical scope and shed the Western humanistic model. Proposes a "postmodern textbook" less concerned with covering canonical facts than with issues to be discussed and situations to be analyzed. (21 citations) (VWC)