Instructional packages dealing with a single conceptual unit of humanities subject matter can be used to infuse humanities education into vocational curricula. The development of such modules must begin with a firm foundation to insure the success of the project. Steps in the preparation for module development should include determining the…

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…

Sixty-one readings have been selected and collected here to provide a sense of the substance, scope, and potentiality of an education in the humanities. Sections deal with (1) a definition of the humanities as a body of knowledge and insight, a mode of expression, a program for education, and an underlying attitude toward life, (2) the ways that…

The National Instructional Television Center provides this guide for teachers whose students will be viewing the Images and Things series. The series, composed of 30 films of 20 minutes each, directs attention to the aesthetic and humanistic aspects of art and seeks to help children develop a sense of art appreciation and an ability for art…

In arguing that philosophy should be taught in schools, it is defined as a search for truth and the ability to discern and distinguish logical coherence and abstract reasoning. The Classics may be used to teach philosophy; Plato's works, especially the "Euthyphro," are used to support the argument. (CHK)

From among the possible approaches to film study -- through the communicator, the medium, and the audience -- the process and motives involved in the communicator's manufacture of the film itself, is the strongest hook upon which to hang a methodology of film study. (JH)

A justification and explication of the existence of elites in the academic world, but especially in the humanities where they perform a practical and necessary function for the enrichment of the mankind, is presented. (JH)

This secondary humanities curriculum is based on four assumptions: humanities are for all students, must be interdisciplinary as well as presented through multimedia, deal with real issues affectively as well as cognitively, involve value judgements and decision making. (JH)

This is a review of literature for the high school or college humanities teacher who is committed to the teaching of religion as part of the human experience. (Author)

The keynote address before the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) Central Division Conference is presented in this publication along with a series of reports reflecting the activities of the CCHA for 1983-84. In his address entitled "Born Again Humanities or Here Comes the Sun," Landon C. Kirchner discusses the incipient…

Five rules are given for conducting a course in humanities bibliography which students will consider relevant. (PF)

Defends English instruction against the current trend of integrating such classes into humanities programs, arguing for the uniqueness and unpredictability of all experience and the human capacity to recreate, share, and evaluate experience as is taught in English. (Author/RB)

Reprinted from the November 1967 issue of PHI DELTA KAPPAN Magazine.

Response Article Nr.2 on a special topic: "The Means-Ends Problem of Education in the Humanities. See AA 502 148 and AA 502 149 for the main article and the first response article, respectively.

These Latin American reference sources are presented in three independent documents: (1) an annotated bibliography of business and law-related publications, organized by type and subject, including periodicals; (2) a partially annotated bibliography of reference materials in humanities and social sciences; (3) a directory of selected book dealers,…