Describes special program at the University of Denver funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to design and offer intensive interdisciplinary courses on cultures separated from our own by time and/or space. (Author/BK)

The cultures of the science community and the humanities community misunderstand each other at the core, but there is more misunderstanding on the part of humanists about science than the reverse. If humanists insist that technical specialists study ethics and esthetics, what are the humanists prepared to study in return? (Author/MSE)

The article examines the historical/contemporary impact of textbooks on the curriculum and the relationship between controversy and textbooks. Specifically, current science and humanities textbooks have become involved in certain controversial issues. (Author/NQ)

Contrasts the nature of citation practices in the sciences and in the humanities, and details the workings of the Institute for Scientific Information's new Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Fifteen references are cited. (FM)

It is a pitifully narrow humanities curriculum which focuses on great Western art, as many college humanities sequences have done. Any true consideration of the humanities needs to view mankind in relation to the cosmos. In essence, all one's education needs to be humanistically oriented in the broadest possible sense. (Author/SJL)

The notion that the interdisciplinary enterprise involves abandoning a discipline for a consistently holistic stance is critiqued. It is suggested that there are ways of exploring interdisciplinary relationships from the perspective of a discipline. (MLW)

Profiles one high school teacher's humanities course, which emphasizes human expression through art. (RL)

The National Endowment for the Humanities provides grants to ordinary citizens as well as scholars to pursue interests in the humanities. The basic philosophy of the grants programs is outlined. (JMF)

The scope of the humanities in tradition, literature, and history is discussed. (JMF)

Lists and describes six available instructional films which are appropriate for use in graduate library school classes in the literature and bibliography of the humanities. (FM)

A tool consisting of 2 sets of 18 statements and requiring 20 minutes for administration, the Hartman Value Profile evaluates progress and maturity in areas not readily adaptable to more objective means of evaluation. Firsthand experiences with the HVP have indicated successful evaluations of postsecondary student thinking. (JC)

Identifies certain strategies applicable to the teaching of "every masterpiece of world literature", regardless of its genre, so as to make literature, as a liberal art, contribute to the student's ability to organize and interpret and communicate experience. (Editor/RK)

Describes a one-semester elective English course for seniors. (DD)

Makes the case that inner growth or learning takes place in solitude. Argues that educators have failed to teach solitude and provides examples of accomplishing this by teaching the humanities as arts. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)

Suggests that the problem of public space and the role that humanities disciplines play in both figuring and materializing space in higher education is lost in the debates about reform in the humanities. Defines "public space" as the multiple environments in which humanities disciplines attain their meaning and value. Proposes that literacy…