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Bertonneau, Thomas F. – Academic Questions, 2010
"Popular culture" and "culture studies" have become mainstays of the humanities in higher education. Like most other humanities courses, popular culture courses today mainly serve the usual politically correct program of the existing dominant class in the academy. Nevertheless, such courses can also be a powerful tool for instructors who wish to…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Political Attitudes, Humanities, Anxiety
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Cherkasova, Evgenia V.; Raby, Nicholas R. – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2015
This paper presents a course design model created in response to the pedagogical challenges inherent in a 'Big Questions' course in the humanities. We conceptualize the model as an Open Dynamic Educational Project (ODEP), namely, a carefully designed learning environment--physical, intellectual, and digital--which comprises "both" a…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Web Sites, Computer Games
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Spear, Shelley; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1990
Describes a year-long core humanities course at Washington State University in which freshman composition is linked to a world civilizations context. Explains how the linked course aims to prepare students for the writing and thinking tasks they need for other courses in college and after they graduate. (MG)
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition
McCauley, Nancy – 1979
A model for faculty development and curricular change that focuses on the history, culture, and contributions of women in the humanities is the subject of this overview of a National Endowment for the Humanities final report on establishing a women's studies section at Stephens College (Missouri). The report is divided into sections describing…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
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Evans, Colin – Studies in Higher Education, 1990
The article describes organizing a seminar in the humanities as a "metalogue" where the object of study is both a text and the occasion itself, as well as the conscious analogical relation between the two. Two examples of the seminar as metalogue are offered. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Humanities, Learning Processes
Groman, George L. – ADE Bulletin, 1973
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Workman, Brooke – 1975
This loose-leaf book is a guide to an interdisciplinary course stressing a humanities approach to the study of American civilization. Each of the 90 lessons in the guide lists specific goals, materials, procedures, and alternative or additional suggestions on ways to teach about American civilization in the 1920s, the 1930s, and in the period from…
Descriptors: American Culture, Art, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
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Kinsella, Timothy – Interdisciplinary Humanities, 1995
Describes instructional strategies and content for a course titled "Those Fabulous (?) Sixties." Discusses the course structure outlining four paradigms of social science research and action. Maintains that the course helps students know more about themselves, their values, and their relationships to society. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
The article describes a two-year, interdisciplinary humanities core requirement, "Portraits of Human Greatness." Established in 1977-78 at St. Anselm College (New Hampshire), this course requires freshmen and sophomores to study groups or individuals in Western Civilization in a lecture/seminar format with extensive reading and writing…
Descriptors: Biographies, Course Descriptions, Curriculum, Higher Education
McSwain, Augusta; Hollis, Sara – 1973
"Man and His Creative Awareness," developed by the Institute for Services to Education (ISE) in conjunction with the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program (TCCP) is a course that deals with the many aspects of human creativity: music, the visual arts, literature, poetry, drama, architecture, photography, and the film. The ISE-TCCP approach…
Descriptors: Black Education, Course Descriptions, Creativity, Curriculum Development
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Dietrich, Donald J. – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1987
Describes a history course on the college level that uses biographies to help students connect important political leaders, such as Hitler and Machiavelli, to the time and place that shaped their actions. Reports on the effectiveness of the class. (RKM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, History Instruction
Smith, R. Irvine – 1968
In this book, twenty-two contributors offer their individual perspectives on teaching the humanities and social sciences to non-majors in secondary and higher education. Rather than a coherent discussion of classic curricular problems, the book offers a collection of pieces of evidence about what teachers chose to when they had a free hand to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design
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Hallett, Linda Rahm; Kalman, Calvin S. – American Journal of Physics, 1975
Discusses a two-semester college course focusing on the idea that developments in the sciences and the arts together reveal a constant process of mutual influence and cross-fertilization. The course develops this thesis using examples from physics, art, literature, and philosophy from Greek times to the present day. (Author/MLH)
Descriptors: College Science, Course Descriptions, Curriculum, Higher Education
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Gosselin, Edward A.; Lerner, Lawrence S. – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1977
Describes the rationale and course outlines for two college-level courses which integrate scientific and humanistic thought. Available from: Division of Social Sciences, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Course Descriptions, Curriculum, Higher Education
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Calvert, J.B.; And Others – History Teacher, 1981
Describes interdisciplinary science course for nonscience science majors which is part of the humanities program at the University of Denver. The course consists of a central lecture series, a mathematics and science tutorial, and four workshops on astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, and optics. The structure is also appropriate for a history of…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, General Education, Higher Education
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