The humanities provide us the opportunities to become more capable in thought, judgment, communication, appreciation, and action. Study of the humanities make it possible to share and appreciate the experiences of others, to learn from their lives and their thoughts. (Author/SW)

Discusses the importance of the humanities, particularly language study, to the pursuit of knowledge. (AM)

Discusses the future of the humanities in American institutions of higher learning, including the role of elementary and secondary schools in raising academic standards. (AM)

Provides an overview of findings from a general survey of applications to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and describes NEH's activity in the area of language instruction. (AM)

Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Seminar of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) held June 19-23, 1972, at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (DS)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), December 26, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

Links the decline in foreign language enrollments to the general decline in education in the liberal arts. (AM)

This paper discusses the relationship that traditionally has existed between the domains of business studies and the domain of humanities, of which foreign language study has always been a part. The implications for foreign language departments of instituting courses such as commercial French, of dealing with career education, or of expanding…

The study of foreign languages in the liberal arts curriculum is defended. Foreign languages reveal the rules characterizing cognitive human activities; they help us to understand both common bonds of humanity and varieties of human behavior. Language study should be central to humanities study. (CHK)