Cultural heritage materials can offer rewarding learning opportunities and impactful experiences for students across a variety of disciplines, especially in the humanities and social sciences. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the attendant move to online instruction at many colleges and universities, disrupted pedagogical practices and the ways…

Ideal for faculty and administrators looking to blend business education and the liberal arts, this toolkit combines exemplary syllabi from 26 leading institutions with step-by-step strategies to advocate successfully for curricular innovation. Conceived with comprehensiveness in mind, these resources cover both inspiration and implementation for…

Secularism is controversial in today's political debates, championed by some and vilified by others. So when Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., opened a center for the study of secularism in September 2005, some people worried that it could become a source of friction on campus--yet another battleground in the culture wars that are wreaking havoc…

With the changing demographics in college populations, educators can no longer offer students a curriculum that denies the very existence of women and minorities. Yet this is precisely what occurs in the traditional or womanless curriculum. If one recognizes the limitations of a curriculum that accepts male experience as universal, one is ready to…

Describes the California Humanities Project, an attempt to bring advanced research and scholarship in the humanities into the curriculum at all levels. Also reports on legislation which requires the California State Department of Education to develop a model curriculum on human rights with particular attention to inhumanity and genocide. (JDH)

This study examines the status of and influences on the humanities in community service programs at eight community colleges in Southern California and offers recommendations for improving this position. After introductory material and a review of the literature on humanities and community services in the two-year college, Chapter II presents the…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE PLANNING STAGE OF A PROGRAM TO ENRICH HUMANITIES INSTRUCTION THROUGH THE USE OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS, EXTENSIVE MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES, AND ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY. A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANNING GRANT ACTIVITIES CONSTITUTES A MAJOR SECTION OF THE REPORT. INCLUDED AMONG THESE ACTIVITIES ARE THE SELECTION OF…

A recent California task force report on middle grade education, "Caught in the Middle," recommends that the master schedule provide for extended time blocks for core curriculum courses. Several goals of middle school education will be fulfilled by the program which is often called "core block" or "block time." The…

The following disciplines are treated in separate chapters which comprise the major portion of the document: visual and tactile arts; body education; music; drama and language arts; social sciences; foreign languages; mathematics; science; industrial arts; household arts; philosophy; and religion. The standard format of most chapters includes a…

DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT IS A PROJECT WHICH OFFERS INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES INSTRUCTION THROUGH EXTENSIVE MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES, INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS, AND ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY. THE PROJECT, STILL IN THE PLANNING STAGE, WILL ULTIMATELY BE HOUSED IN A SCIENTIFICALLY DESIGNED RESOURCE CENTER WHERE EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS,…

A decade ago, California's community colleges were the nation's undisputed leaders of community college education--unparalleled in access, quality, diversity, and size. Today, these institutions are deeply concerned with inadequate and unstable funding, declining enrollments, skepticism about the quality of programs, and students' lack of…