Ponders issues related to communications history, including characteristics of effective communications history teachers, the nature of historical truth, the ties of history to the humanities, the relationship between the personal and the professional lives of communications historians, and criticisms of communications historians. (GT)

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)

An inmate explains how liberal arts-based postsecondary education offered him the cultural foundation, critical thinking, and communication skills to change his attitude and character. (SK)

Describes the challenges involved in creating digitally rich courses in the humanities, courses that can include opportunities for learning that are more effective than traditional approaches. Considers course development and the new skills required by faculty and students. (SLD)

Presents the section of the full report which addresses the overemphasis on research over teaching by faculty at the university level. Noted are a decline in the number of hours devoted to teaching responsibilities and increased numbers of books and articles published. (DB)

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…

Suggests that the most serious problem facing higher education institutions today is disciplinary discrimination because faculty benefits and salaries are not always decided on tenure and accomplishment but on market demands in high-demand fields of education. Humanities faculty are less likely to receive comparable salaries, equipment, and…

This article has three parts: (1) a context for a perspective shift in correctional education; (2) a declaration of principles to articulate issues; and (3) associated curricular effects. (Author/JOW)

Maintains that the humanities get "screwed" in the academy because they are feminized. Explores this process of "feminization," focusing on college English departments. Offers a different view of the relationship between "soft" humanities and "hard" disciplines, reconceived from a feminist perspective. (SR)

Educators participating in the Collaboratives for Humanities and Arts Instruction (CHART) network have found large domains of inquiry in which traditional models had little predictive value and bore little resemblance to experience. Self-organizing systems are open and interactive, have global properties flowing from individuals' aggregate…

Discusses scholarship in the humanities, arguing for a broader definition of scholarship. Discusses intrinsic motivations for pursuing scholarly activities, the importance of institutional support, the value of consortia, and the role of external funding agencies. (DMM)

In a study of "topic-types" as a common academic text structure for second-language students, 80 texts used in humanities classes (history, geography, economics, business studies) at upper secondary levels were analyzed. Results support the existence of topic-types in the humanities and the use of the framework as a feasible pedagogical tool. (33…

Describes the development of a system to retrieve images for an international project that is producing a pictorial dictionary of classical mythology, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Applications to other types of information are discussed, two classification systems for Art History are described, and design principles for…

Discusses "Object LOGO," a symbolic computer programing language for use in the creative arts. Describes the use of the program in approaching arts projects from textual, graphic, and musical perspectives. Suggests that use of the program can promote development of creative skills and humanities learning in general. (SG)