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Buurma, Rachel Sagner; Heffernan, Laura – University of Chicago Press, 2021
"The Teaching Archive" shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up "the teaching archive"--the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments--of critics and scholars including T. S. Eliot,…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Lecture Method, Notetaking, Assignments
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Sams, Edwin Boyer, Jr. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1979
Describes a course on fantasy which included studies of fairy tales, "Alice in Wonderland," and "The Hobbit," and a dramatization of "Through the Looking Glass." (MKM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Fantasy, Humanities Instruction
Rosenwasser, Marie; Phipps, Rita – 1982
Instructional materials for North Seattle Community College's course "Humanities in Thought and Action" are presented. The course, the goals of which are to increase students' knowledge of art, drama, language, literature, and music, while also improving communication and thinking skills, involves multi-media presentations by 14 guest lecturers…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Love, Robert W.; Olson, Frederick S. – 1982
The project described in this report focused on the development of an interdisciplinary course incorporating physics and literature at Shoreline Community College. Part 1 provides an overview of the project and summarizes major questions and problems confronted in the process of curriculum development, including the relationship between science…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
San Mateo Coll., CA. – 1981
Descriptions are provided for the courses in the College of San Mateo's new Humanities program. As introductory material notes, these team-taught, interdisciplinary courses were designed to be taken independently in various combinations depending upon the student's major or interests. They carry three units of transferable credit and satisfy…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Course Content
Case, Chester H. – 1983
This report discusses the structures, procedures, outcomes, and evaluation of the Tier One Project (TOP), which was conducted at Los Medanos College from July 1981 to February 1983 to develop general education courses embodying humanities concerns. Background to the project is provided first, delineating TOP's objectives of examining general…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
Slonecker, William G. – 1981
Chemeketa Community College's (CCC's) efforts to place a greater emphasis on the humanities within occupational curricula are described in this report. It first relates the background of the rift between humanities and technical faculty at the college, which developed after the introduction of a separate transfer curriculum in 1970 and which…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consortia, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Enrichment
Bauman, M. Garrett – Community, Technical, and Junior College Journal, 1986
Describes "Self Reliance," a humanities course offered at Monroe Community College (NY), which combines humanistic values and methods of inquiry with practical, appropriate technological skills to help students develop a self-reliant life style. Looks at hands-on, group, and individual term projects; student characteristics; and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Ecology
Engleberg, Isa N. – 1992
In 1989, Prince George's Community College (PGCC) received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a 4-week summer seminar in Greek mythology for humanities faculty. The seminar, entitled "The Nature and Function of Greek Mythology," provided enough financial compensation to free the faculty from summer school teaching,…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Faculty Development
Brown, Dion K. – 1976
During October and November of 1975, course outlines were solicited from the sixteen Florida community colleges offering an integrated humanities course. Ten colleges provided outlines, which were subsequently reviewed in terms of the textual materials used, the teaching approach employed, and stated objectives. The review showed that all of the…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Art Appreciation, Cognitive Objectives, Community Colleges
LaPaglia, Nancy – 1988
A major problem in any remedial course is finding a valid textbook that underprepared students can read. At Daley College, in Illinois, "Classics of Children's Literature" (Griffeth and Frey, editors) is used as the text in Humanities 100, one of several remedial courses offered for college credit to help students meet full-time eligibility…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Community Colleges, Course Content
McAlexander, Aaron – 1976
This report describes the development and proposed content of a new interdisciplinary course called "Science and Society," which will be offered at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) for the first time in fall 1976. This course will deal with the role which science and technology have played in the events which have shaped the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Thomas, Timothy R. – 1991
A course description and syllabus are provided for "Integrated Humanities," a general education course taught at Northern New Mexico Community College to provide students with a solid, reliable knowledge base and framework upon which to build future educational experiences. Following introductory material, a syllabus for students is…
Descriptors: Activity Units, American Indians, Class Activities, Community Colleges