This document describes the planning and implementation of an interdisciplinary humanities program at Golden West College. A planning committee sought input from faculty and students in order to determine what needs were not being met by current general education requirements and to determine how an integrated program could be developed involving…

This 104-item annotated bibliography covers research in the teaching of English published between 1 January 1976 and 30 June 1976. Subject headings are bilingual and bidialectal studies; language and verbal learning; literature, humanities, and media; teacher education; testing and evaluation; and written and oral communication. In addition, each…

Humanities majors at one of two institutions studied rated the institutional climate significantly higher on an Aestheticism/Idealism factor than their peers in the social sciences. Social science majors at both universities rated the climate of their institution significantly higher on a Bureaucracy factor than either humanities or natural…

Argues against the attitude that "there's nothing you can do" with a major in English; outlines the advantages of an education in English that involves intensive and extensive study of language and literature and that prepares students for living and working as educated humanists. (GW)

A Mellon Foundation study estimated that by 1990 the U.S. will have a surplus of 60,000 Ph.D.s in the humanities. This article describes a unique, tuition-free program that is sponsored by the New York State Department of Education, designed to introduce Ph.D.s to the business world. (Author/RK)

It is suggested that today's pundits underestimate the intelligence of the general public and misread the future evolution of the university. It is their rhetoric, more than a trend toward vocational training, that is the largest obstacle to the reemergence of liberal education as the central purpose of the university. (LBH)

The classics are often neglected because modern educators consider them irrelevant. Yet, studying the classics facilitates mastery of standard English and stimulates intellectual awareness, both necessary to compete satisfactorily in the United States. Furthermore, liberal education stimulates students to continue learning. Adult schools, along…

Pacific Lutheran's integrated studies program includes eight courses and one seminar, all with "dynamics of change" as the theme. Courses are related to each other in pairs or sequences, each sequence having its own unifying and controlling topic expressed in the particular subjects of each course component. (Author/LBH)

Miami-Dade Community College offers a course called "The Art of Being Human," which uses a text-anthology, study guide, television films, and slide-tape independent study programs. The student taking this introductory course hopefully will be motivated to learn more about humanities in other courses or in self-study. (Author/LBH)

Illustrates one way that history, as part of the humanities, can help students to develop personal and social values. (RK)

One studies Italian for the same reason one studies any language--to become educated. Even more than for art and music, Italian is necessary for literature. Dante must be read, and in the original. Further, we study Italian to know our cultural roots and heritage. (AMH)

A general discussion is offered of the future of the humanities and their need to adapt to the new methods of instruction and evaluation suggested by faculty development. (Author/LBH)

Sponsored by a consortium of 30 American universities, Rome's Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies offers a year of study to American undergraduate classics majors. Instructors are also American and normally stay only a year; teaching assistants are always ex-students of the center. Extensive field trips are an important part of the…

This study assembles research supporting the value of an undergraduate or graduate curriculum which creatively integrates humanistic and professional training. It concludes that both the demands for breadth and depth of educational experience and for significant integration of professional study can be accomplished through innovative revision of…