Asserts the need for new undergraduate culture studies textbooks that maintain broad historical scope and shed the Western humanistic model. Proposes a "postmodern textbook" less concerned with covering canonical facts than with issues to be discussed and situations to be analyzed. (21 citations) (VWC)

A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funded a study to establish an International Humanities Curriculum that would serve as a model of curricular internationalization upon which interested observers might draw for revision of their own curricula. This curriculum revision project introduced the study of texts, ideas, themes, and…

Article evaluated media courses as seen from the perspective of the humanities teacher, determined to keep traditional humanities courses intact. (RK)

Designing a women's studies course that would be truly interdisciplinary, and not merely multidisciplinary as most such courses usually are, requires an understanding of the fundamental differences between the aims and outlooks of the humanities and the social sciences. The humanities are more concerned with process than product, with judgment…

DESPITE THE IMPORTANCE OF COURSES DESIGNED TO INTEREST THE ENGLISH MAJOR AND TO PREPARE FUTURE ENGLISH TEACHERS, ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS MUST CONCERN THEMSELVES MORE WITH THE NEEDS OF THE GENERAL STUDENT. DEPARTMENTS MUST ALMOST REVERSE THEIR CURRENT VALUE SYSTEM IF THEY HOPE TO SHAPE YOUNG MINDS AND PROVIDE A HUMANISTIC ALTERNATIVE TO THE NARROW…

The purpose of this report, arising out of a conference, is to provide guidelines for curriculum development in the occupation cluster designated by the Center for Occupational and Adult Education of the Office of Education as "the fine arts and humanities." The scope of the categories discussed are: (1) career, (2) work, (3) values, (4)…

The work of the Schools Council (a body with a majority of teacher members which conducts research and development on curricula, teaching methods, and examinations in English and Welsh schools) is summarized under the headings of Examination, Subject Committees, Field Officers, Teachers' Centers, and Working Parties. The projects are concerned…

Considers arguments opposed to and in favor of developing computer education courses for humanities students. Argues that computers, as a major part of our culture, need to be understood by every student and concludes that computer instruction must become a standard part of the humanities curriculum. (GEA)

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)

Recognizes the decline of history instruction and reports the results of the recent pilot test of the history knowledge of 17-year-old high school students by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Lists the various projects of the National Endowment for the Humanities designed to strengthen United States History instruction. (JDH)

Education, the author believes, falls far short of the goals set for it by our society. The humanities receive insufficient emphasis in the schools, and the quality of life in America is poorer because this is so. (Editor)

In the year 2000, Brazil celebrated the 500th anniversary of its discovery by the Portuguese navigator, Pedro Alvares Cabral, and subsequent settlement by the Portuguese and African, Western, and Asian immigrants. The seminar commemorating these events was designed for U.S. secondary and post-secondary teachers and curriculum specialists of the…

The United States Military Academy has made some evolutionary improvements in its curriculum: more student-teacher interaction, an outstanding lecture series and cultural program, art seminars with Manhattanville College, and a Fine Arts Forum. (PG)