Discusses implications and ideas presented at the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Conference (University of Iowa, March 28-31, 1984), a symposium in which distinguished representatives from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences met to share common dissatisfactions with prevailing scientific orthodoxies and common interests in…

Paper delivered at a 1975 Conference on Humanities and the Social Sciences, sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute. (DD)

Leading scientists and humanitarians were asked questions regarding the intellectual split between their Two Cultures (see C. P. Snow). Positive efforts in the integration of the sciences and humanities were described in education news media, and national programs. A call was made for the development of a Third Culture--social science. (CS)

Institutions are bringing the professional artist into their instructional and cultural environments through five approaches: concert performances, extended performances, master classes, part-time residencies, and full-time residencies. The effect of each program on the artist and the college or university is examined. (Author/LBH)

This special issue contains the following articles: (1) "Critiquing the Center: Rigoberta Menchu and Enrique Dussel" (Joseph R. Hoff); (2) "Caroline Maria De Jesus: A Testimonial Voice in the Wilderness" (Eva Bueno); (3) "Latin American Women's Voices: La Malinche to Rigoberta Menchu" (Ana Maria Romo de Mease); (4) "China in Borges''The Garden of…

Questions what the English department is doing and why and what it should be doing and why. (TO)

Suggests that the humanities can be revitalized by some humanists developing teaching and research interests in fields in the contemporary world. (TO)

Author attempted to develop and broaden the outlook of children by use of classroom drama. (Author/RK)

Considered the social attitudes of our American culture and the need for an accurate history of our actual pluralism. (Author/RK)

Article presented a survey that attempted to evaluate 134 humanities programs. (Author/RK)

After distinguishing between what humanizing education is and what it is not, specific steps which can be taken to humanize secondary education are pointed out. (KM)

Presents some instances of the implications of chemistry which illustrate both its scientific and humanistic nature. Indicates that chemistry can be used as a bridge to span the artificially created chasm between Snow's two cultures and thus to demonstrate the fundamental unity of all knowledge. (CC)

Foreign language study and culture study are two important complementary subjects which have the outward direction of interest and human value necessary for students to develop their personal growth. Article describes a program for such growth. (Author/RK)

Guidelines for establishment of a course or series of meetings to help future college professors understand the responsibilities of the professional in six interrelated areas. (RL)

With the conviction that a student needs purpose in life and that the humanities as a discipline can contribute most significantly to this achievement, research to determine the extent of higher education programs in this country was undertaken, with the encouraging conclusion that humanities are offered in some form in all institutions surveyed.…