Mendocino College (California) is participating in the national Change in Liberal Education Project, which attempts to design comprehensive liberal arts curricula around a single unifying topic. The program at Mendocino focuses on the World Food Crisis, an area of study which is well-suited to the agricultural character of the local community. In…

A team of students, faculty members, division chairpersons and administrators at Mendocino College developed a set of knowledge, skill and attitude goals for an interdisciplinary program around the theme of the "World Food Crisis." Once the broad goals had been set, a team representing the social sciences, natural sciences, and…