Describes the importance of research programs and their implementation problems when students' complete education and well-being are considered as the primary concern in this educational system. (CC)

Sophomore, junior and senior high-school students studied the city of the future through science fiction, films, architectural slides, lectures, discussions. Then, with clay, junk and classroom flotsam", teams were set to build model future cities. Result: total and disturbing behavior change leading to understanding of need for the humanities.…

Western civilization could learn from the maturity of culture and society in Asia, where political, economic, and population problems have not affected the refinements of arts, literature, and philosophy. (WM)

Examines the assumptions underlying mastery learning to identify contradictions between these assumptions and the pedagogy of humanistic education. Finds no such contradiction. Suggests reasons for humanities instructors' opposition or indifference to mastery learning. Reviews the strategies used in the City Colleges of Chicago's faculty…

Students in the best universities do not believe in anything, and those universities are doing nothing about it. The great questions--God, freedom, and immortality--hardly touch the young. The universities have no vision, no view of what a human being must know in order to be considered educated. (MLW)

Describes Ithaca College's project incorporating basic skills development in traditional liberal arts courses. Explains the techniques used to develop skills in reading and studying, writing, speaking and listening, and language and reasoning in courses from nine disciplines. (DMM)

Describes the Nigerian educational system. Answers critiques of the liberal arts legacy of the colonial period by pointing out the contributions of the tradition. Advocates a balanced educational curriculum integrating science and technical education with a wide range of humanistic disciplines that address traditional and contemporary issues. (DMM)

Examines the trend toward "scientism" or applying a quantifiable methodology for its own sake to research on sentence combining. Argues that sentence combining is only a tool and not a suitable curriculum for composition instruction and cautions against using social scientific methodologies in essentially humanistic disciplines. (HTH)

Suggests that a general liberal education is a basis for developing more capable, far-seeing, and wiser leaders in business and elsewhere. (AEA)

Describes two NEH sponsored workshops for the development of foreign language and literature programs which took place at the San Francisco and Houston MLA meetings in 1979 and 1980. Resulting efforts to strengthen foreign language programs as essential components of humanistic education are illustrated by reports from 1979 workshop participants.…

The most important contribution the humanities makes to public policy is the sound education of those who will make future public policy. The humanists' task is to provide continuity, to educate each generation about its intellectual, spiritual, moral, and political birthright from which public policy must flow. (MLW)

Describes a course offered for the freshman civil engineering major at the University of Missouri-Rolla. The rationale of developing the course which focuses on the symbolic, social, and technological aspects of the Mississippi River is included. (HM)

Describes a weekend job workshop for humanities graduate students and recent PhD recipients in which they come into contact with individuals of similar backgrounds who have found nonacademic employment. Recent workshops are described, and recommendations for conducting workshops are included, such as enlisting consultants and using the placement…

West Chester State College's pilot project to improve writing builds on writing skills established in the freshman English courses and extends these skills through writing practice and instruction in the humanities and other disciplines. Obstacles encountered in developing the program, program design, instructional techniques, and spinoff projects…