Maintains that junior college humanities courses must incorporate a global perspective and that the history of Western Civilization be taught within the framework of world history. Presents goals and methods for a world civilizations course. (JDH)

Describes two methods of invigorating student research in social studies. Showcase events are culminating activities or simulations which demonstrate student learning in an active, imaginative, and involving way. Snapshots are dramatic interpretations of specific moments in time. Examples of both methods are provided along with suggestions for…

Discusses the importance of historical study within general education. Reviews the rise and fall of the Western Civilization course as the core of general education in the humanities. Suggests ways a revised version of this course can be restored to a central place in the curriculum. (AYC)

The importance of research in the humanities is underscored, and it is proposed that humanistic research does not differ in nature from activities already accepted as research and should be supported with the same commitment and through the same agencies as research in the social and natural sciences. (MSE)

Argues that the social sciences and humanities bring different attitudes and methods to the problem of meaning and that both views are flawed. Concludes that a realignment of literary studies under the aegis of rhetoric is necessary. (FL)

The liberal arts are undervalued because many do not understand what thinking entails. Empirical reasoning is only one facet of thought; interpretation and evaluation are just as critical and are what the liberal arts teach. This imbalance that permeates the system of higher education is discussed. (Author/MLW)

Religion and science have become polarized in modern society, a conflict characteristic of the humanities generally. Comparative religion has a place among the other humanities disciplines, since religion and science have a relationship whose roots go to the basis of our cultural tradition. (MSE)

Offers advice to English department chairs on the behavior of academic departments. (AEA)

Presented is the thesis that the solution of environmental problems must deal with the cause as well as the symptoms. It is asserted that treatment of the cause will involve the reshaping of man's understanding of himself and his need for control and power through environmental education. (SL)

A report is made on the Conference on Alternative Careers for Doctoral Degree Recipients in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts, held in October 1975, sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Michigan. (RM)

This report reviews the requirements for infrastructure for research in the arts and humanities in United Kingdom universities and colleges. It assesses the extent of remedial investment required and sets out the conditions needed to manage this research infrastructure on a sustainable basis. The requirements for arts and humanities research that…

As the potency of science and its impact upon society grow, the need for a humanistic perspective on science education becomes ever more urgent. Although there is not a consensus about a humanistic conception of science education, this monograph presents a normative conception of humanistic science education, which places primacy on the notion of…

If you wish to start an undergraduate professional and technical writing (PTW) program at a small liberal arts college, you will find good arguments for your project in the educational writings of Sir Francis Bacon. This paper gathers some of Bacon's educational ideas from various writings and applies them to the five stages of undergraduate…

This annual volume of the Community College Humanities Review (CCHR) presents a wide range of articles dealing with humanities--from Lloyd Kaplan's attempts to set the record straight (by presenting a more accurate appraisal and a truer perspective of Dave Brubeck's outstanding contribution to the course of jazz) to Walter Krieglstein's…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the spread of astronomy contents throughout the Spanish pre-university educative system as stated in the curricula established by law. Possible contents of Astronomy were first classified in groups and then looked after in the official curricula of the different subjects throughout the Spanish…