DEBATE OVER THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL CONTENT OF ELEMENTARY AND INTERMEDIATE COLLEGE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS REVEALS DIVERGENCE OF OPINION OVER THE SUBJECT MATTER TO BE INCLUDED IN THE COURSES. WHILE SOCIAL SCIENCE-MINDED PEOPLE EMPHASIZE THAT CULTURE EXTENDS BEYOND LITERATURE TO THE THINKING AND BEHAVIOR PATTERNS OF OTHER PEOPLES, THEY DO NOT…

WHEN A COMMERCIAL TELEVISION STATION OFFERED ONE WEEKLY HOUR OF FREE TIME FOR COLOR BROADCASTING, 17 JUNIOR COLLEGES IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, PARTICIPATED IN A COOPERATIVE PRESENTATION OF A CREDIT COURSE IN "GREAT CULTURES OF THE WESTERN WORLD." THE COURSE WAS SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF WORK BEING DONE IN THE…

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…

The conceptual framework for a humanities program presented in this dissertation was arrived at through a literature review, which yielded many alternative recommendations, and a mail questionnaire. The replies of 117 individuals resulted in the establishment of the following priorities: (1) the humanities are defined as specific objectives to be…

College education is essentially concerned with argumentation about interpretations. It depends on and trains for the capacity to assume different points of view simultaneously in order to interpret and predict, and it should celebrate playful acts of imagination. (MSE)

Discusses a Vassar College workshop and the debate it generated over the depth and breadth of computer knowledge needed by humanities students. Describes two positions: the "Holistic View," which emphasizes the understanding of the formal methods of computer implementation; and the "Expert Users View," which sees the humanist…

This bibliography is designed as a research aid for those planning to introduce or modify a course to teach the use of the computer to students in the humanities. Divided into two sections, the first covers articles and books that deal with designing and teaching these courses; the second is a list of background readings. (GEA)

Whether or not a person consciously studies the past, he has in his mind a conception of past events. (GB)

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)

A teacher in Germany uses art to teach history; a teacher in Massachusetts uses prints by famous artists to create a mini-museum'' in the classroom. (SP)