In 1995, author Earl Shorris established a small educational program designed to help young adults escape from poverty. The curriculum chosen by Shorris for this experimental program focused solely on a classically based, college-level study in the humanities. While I do not find that Shorris provided proof that a classically inspired course in…

The authors decided to use Bob Dylan's 2004 memoir "Chronicles" as a text in their freshman humanities seminars at Villanova University, partly to illustrate to increasingly career-oriented students--prospective engineers, business majors, and the like--how a liberal education and exposure to classic literature are relevant to everyone, and partly…

Research about the nature of psychology, its subject matter, its level of analysis, its scientific laws, its relationship with other disciplines, and its social relevance has been a matter of great concern and interest during the development of psychology. This problem can be analyzed in terms of the dilemmas of the psychological discipline, which…

This article presents an interview with Gary Olson on the changing contexts of the humanities in this modern world. He emphasizes that the humanities are absolutely essential when it comes to the very real-world problems. He explains that what he is saying not just applies to terrorism and economic crisis; the humanities equip everyone to deal…

This article discusses the planning and implementation of a high school course to (1) help students find their identities through the arts, and (2) help teenagers cope with today's society by looking at life's basic questions and examining answers provided by the world's great philosophers. (RC)

This essay and bibliography reports on references pertinent to the theme of humanities instruction in the community college. Although the majority of the sources are in the ERIC collection, also cited are books and articles considered to be basic general references on humanities programs and courses in community colleges. (Author/NHM)

Adapted from a talk originally delivered to the Western Association of Graduate Schools (Denver, March 4, 1968) as one of a series on "Academic Disciplines and Professional Schools View the Seventies.

Responding to a widely expressed discontent about college teaching shared by students, faculty and administrators, representatives of national professional and higher educational associations formed a committee to study means of revitalizing and reorienting instruction. Each contributor in Volume I, selected for his outstanding teaching skills in…

This report describes and evaluates the Humanities Cluster College (HCC), a part of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green University. This interdisciplinary program is described according to: rationale, specific aims, detailed description of the program, subjective evaluation, evaluative research, and recommendations. Related…

Efforts of humanists have been extended to small towns to try to utilize more fully the resources of large universities. (GB)

Prospects for the more decisive implementation of the New Way of the humanities lie with the principal. Schools will become humanized as principals inculcate certain attitudes in teachers which will by proximity be translated into the learning situation; i.e., students cannot be expected to read, study, and think if teachers have reeducated…

In this study unit the image of the labyrinth is enlarged upon to assist students in understanding some of the complexities of life; through mythology, paintings, music, and literature the teacher can motivate students to interpret this persistent expression of man's inner world. (Author/JB)

The humanists of the Renaissance developed a philosophy of education which stated that education must always be connected with the active life, must lead to the development of humanity, must be for the benefit of the community. (JB)

Article discusses the place of liberal arts in the university. (RK)

Maintains that humanities instruction should strive to prepare students "to judge, to discriminate, to make relationships and should not attempt to convey "a body of knowledge; a paper presented at annual Conference on English Education (7th, Syracuse, N.Y., March 28, 1969). (Author/RD)