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Pressler, Charlotte – Honors in Practice, 2019
Over the past three years, honors faculty at South Florida State College, a two-year college offering a limited number of workforce baccalaureates, have reinvented their program. Rather than the themed seminars and exploratory courses popular with an earlier generation, our honors courses now offer students project-based, faculty-guided…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Foreign Countries
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Musil, Caryn McTighe – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter describes a diversity and democracy curriculum and faculty development collaboration among the Association of American Colleges and Universities, The Democracy Commitment, and 10 community colleges.
Descriptors: Humanities, Democratic Values, Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges
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Debb, Scott M.; Debb, Sharon M. – Inquiry, 2012
Enrolling in an introductory course in psychology is a staple of many community college students' core curriculum. For those students who plan to pursue social science and humanities-related majors in particular, introductory psychology helps provide a solid base upon which future coursework at all academic levels will be built. The goal of any…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Introductory Courses, Core Curriculum, Community Colleges
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Berry, David A.; Graff, Gerald; Nelson, Cary – Liberal Education, 2010
In this article, the authors discuss contemporary challenges. David Berry offers advice on teaching the humanities at a community college; Gerald Graff examines how the traditional organization of universities undermines student learning; and Cary Nelson considers the effects on the humanities of the increasing reliance on contingent faculty.
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Humanities, Higher Education, Liberal Arts
Bauerlein, Mark – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
In higher education in the United States, teaching and research in the fields of language and literature are in a desperate condition. Laboring on the age-old axiom "publish-or-perish," thousands of professors, lecturers, and graduate students are busy producing dissertations, books, essays, and reviews. Over the past five decades, their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Public Colleges, Teacher Student Relationship, Humanities