Notes the lack of definition of the term "humanities" and the four-part litany that comprises the usual rhetoric of humanities advocates. Considers the Rockefeller Commission report on the humanities in light of the nondefinition, the four-part litany, and the fragmentation of any argument espousing "more attention to the…

Materials for a humanities course on America in the 1930's are listed and described. (JH)

Discusses the relation between professional training and a humanities education. Notes that the humanities in general education and English studies in particular face pressure, in the wake of poststructuralism, to address extra-academic audiences--particularly working-class, working-poor, and lower-middle-class families--with a revised…

The liberal arts will be in trouble when the public discovers that professors' efforts are as impotent as their claims are extravagant. (JH)

Questions what the English department is doing and why and what it should be doing and why. (TO)

Suggests that the humanities can be revitalized by some humanists developing teaching and research interests in fields in the contemporary world. (TO)

Reports on computer applications for teaching writing and literature. Reviews typical programs, their characteristic capabilities, their limitations, and their dangers. Suggests ways of acquiring computers, evaluating them, integrating them into educational settings, and developing personalized programs. (RL)

A paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Atlanta, November 27, 1970). (Editor/RD)

Presents an introduction to social construction and offers a bibliographical guide to such texts. Recommends general and community specific accounts, defines social constructionist thought in literary criticism and literary history, mentions composition studies, and comments on the impact of social construction in education. (JK)

Describes an integrated interdisciplinary humanities course. (JH)

Presents the notion of a "textshop," which juxtaposes methods of teaching reading and writing with psychoanalysis, both of which are approached through Andre Breton's invention of surrealism. (JC)