English 41, an introductory humanities course taught at Honolulu Community College, presented a foundation in art, religion, architecture, and music. Many class members were employed adults, including policemen and firefighters, who often missed off-campus tours and lectures. Tutor tapes were used to offset the problem of absenteeism. A student…

The purposes of this study were to offer a rationale for interdisciplinary education, to provide descriptions of existing programs for the preparation of humanities teachers, and to offer a model teacher preparation program for the preparation of humanities teachers. The study is devoted to a descriptive analysis of nine existing preparation…

This document, one of a series on questions regarding humanistic education, contains a transcribed conversation about language between Walter J. Ong, Professor of English and Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry at Saint Louis University, and Wayne Altree of Newton South High School, Newton Center, Massachusetts. This conversation on language…

With the use of many examples, the author suggests trends in the use of literature for developing a child's ethnic identity, humanitarian concerns, and appreciation for the arts and literature. The books annotated include poetry collections, folklore, novels, and a variety of commentaries on current thought in teaching literature. Also discussed…

This paper evaluates an experimental humanities program combining English and Social Studies materials in which students discussed topics of social concern. Grade distributions, teacher complaints, planned improvements, and responses to a student questionnaire are examined. A copy of the questionnaire is included. (DLG)

A set of essays are subsumed under four broad headings: man as man, man with himself, man with others, and man and his institutions. The essays are personal and concern the authors' feelings in response to himself, others, or the institutions he is part of. Each essay is followed by a discussion about it. The book is described as an application of…

Today's students are very much interested in films, but discussing films as if they are literature, or as if there are "right" answers about them (the teacher's), will kill off that interest quickly. A better technique is to discuss the feelings which the film's images generate among class members, and to go on from there into larger questions…

Examination of college teacher lecture styles, using the Batchelder-Keane variation of the Flanders Interaction Analysis System, found significant differences in lecture characteristics of college teachers, primarily among the subject fields of science, social sciences, and humanities. (MJB)

The author stresses a need for increased history instruction in schools, better teacher training in the field, and more positive attitudes toward its merits within the classroom as well as outside. Education must relate the present to sets of historical experiences in the past. (AV)

Ten poems were read and evaluated for perceived similarity by freshmen and senior college students majoring in engineering and literature, to determine whether their education affected the students' ability to read and subjectively perceive poetry. Results showed that literary instruction did not change the students' ability to perceive poetry.…

Describes the political dynamics, hierarchy, and rituals of a typical college humanities department. Proposes reorganizing this academic structure, replacing the "humanities" with a philosophy of liberal education. (MM)

Offers writing activities based on the Bayeux Tapestry for use in art, communications, home economics, physical education, psychology, history and social studies, and science and mathematics classes. (EL)

At Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut, a small group of faculty created three interdisciplinary courses with the belief that they would assist students in developing more finely honed critical thinking skills. One course is in the hard sciences, another in the social sciences, and another in the humanities. This paper discusses the…

This paper details the benefits of interdisciplinary studies, with particular focus on the Humanities Enrichment Program at the Community College of Philadelphia. The program uses a team-teaching, linked-course paradigm. Two courses from different disciplines are aligned, and faculty from each discipline teach the linked courses as humanities…

This resource contains lessons and reproducible student worksheets for use with middle, junior, and senior high students. The lessons, which can be used as part of a general music program, a music appreciation class, or a humanities class, explore composers, music repertoire, careers, musical values, elements of music, personal music preferences,…