A professor of American literature ruefully reports on an interview with a student who will soon be a teacher. It is suggested she has been deprived of knowledge in the name of creativity, deprived of skills in the name of self-expression, deprived of understanding in the name of values. (Author/MLW)

Despite recent attention to liberal and general education, the fine arts and their relationship to liberal education receive scant attention in terms of curricular reform at the institutional level. It is suggested that the fine arts should be an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum. (Author/MLW)

From the standpoint that the humanities represent a second change for adult students, the author addresses the issues of noncredit nondegree programs, the organization and funding of continuing education, and the promotion of humanities courses. (SK)

Describes a series of procedures that can objectively measure student growth in interdisciplinary humanities courses at the secondary or college level. Preinstruction and postinstruction assessments determine student attitudes, responses to literature, art, and music, and knowledge of course content; midcourse individual conferences are also used.…

The quarrel as to what part the "humanities" should play in education is not a recent one. Discusses a three-part study on humanities from the Center for the Study of Community Colleges at UCLA, funded by the National Foundation for the Humanities. (Author/RK)

Sketches the interplay of authority and uncertainty that occurred during one year of an American Council of Learned Societies school-university collaborative project. Highlights the role of university scholars from the University of British Columbia's Faculties of Arts and Education. The new humanities scholarship's egalitarianism implicitly…

Scholarly publishers are experimenting with the "electronic monograph," a scholarly book offered on the Internet. Several converging trends (declining university subsidies, increasing research specialization, tightening library budgets) are putting pressure on academic publishing in the humanities and social sciences. Publishers are not convinced…

Analyzes the pedagogical rationale and learning outcomes for incorporating a special collections department in teaching humanities undergraduate and graduate courses. Presents a case study that highlights an innovative collaboration between a University of Colorado German professor and the special collections librarian and staff. (Author/LRW)

Presents the 1997 U.S. Serials Services Price Index, produced by the Library Materials Price Index Committee of the American Library Association's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. Finds a 3.9% increase over 1996. Includes eight tables covering U.S. Serial Services, business, general and humanities, law, science and…

Illustrates the value of interdisciplinary approaches to patient care by exploring visual articulations of suffering as rendered by one artist. Makes general observations about the nature of humanities courses offered to medical students and depicts a visual portrayal of an illness story representing personal perspectives about patient suffering…

Describes an Internet-based image database system connected to a flexible, in-class teaching and learning tool (the Madison Digital Image Database) developed at James Madison University to bring digital images to the arts and humanities classroom. Discusses content, copyright issues, ensuring system effectiveness, instructional impact, sharing the…

Explores how ideological ferment of the last 30 years has shaped values and principles informing classroom practice. Contrasts tolerant, progressive humanism of the post-war era with intense 1970s political controversies. Explains how history teachers who recognized the postmodern dilemma and responded with new approaches found themselves blamed…

The article reports preliminary observations on data from six colleges on application of a regression model to help explain observed differences in instructional efficiencies of specific curricula. A major finding was that the most efficient distribution of students is in the humanities and social sciences. Tentative explanations for this finding…

Argues for the reorientation in college undergraduate language-literature programs to include the interdisciplinary approach. A proposal is made to separate advanced language instruction from literature courses, to attract the language learning enthusiast as well as the literature major, and to integrate both language and literature into cultural…

Presents an overview of the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored Let's Talk about It Program. The intended audience is examined, the role of the scholar analyzed, and the special responsibilities of the discussion leader delineated. Results of the program are evaluated and suggestions for planning a program are offered. (six references)…