This paper describes the use and value of courses in the physical environment offered as part of a non-graded elective program in the English high school curriculum. The writer, who has taught some of these courses, argues that there is a definite place for environmental studies in the humanities curriculum. One course, entitled "Wilderness as a…

An attempt is being made to improve subject access to monographs by augmenting MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) records. Working with a sample of books drawn from the collections of the University of Toronto and comprising a number of subject areas in the humanities and social sciences, the project plans to enlarge the MARC description by using…

Selected findings of a recent national study of participants in a televised college-credit drama course (Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama) are reported. Information was obtained through 24 institutions offering the course; through questionnaires administered to samples of students, faculty members, and administrators; and through site…

At the college level, teachers of composition and teachers of literature have, with regard to educational goals and philosophy, been drifting apart for years. All too often, basic literature courses and combined literature and composition courses, as well as humanities instruction in general, have fallen prey to popularization. Teachers must…

Presents some data on the relative significance of books, periodicals, and teaching staff, in supporting postgraduate work in the humanities and social sciences in Nigeria. (Author/VT)

The teaching of humanities and human values in medical schools has resulted from public concern about value decisions in medicine and from dissatisfaction of patients with the doctor-patient interaction. The Institute on Human Values in Medicine, Yale-New Haven, provides support to medical centers concerned about these issues. (SW)

The consequences of the sixties' denial of the traditional view of the university as keeper of the culture, the subsequent demand for practicality in curriculum and evaluation, and the problems this has raised for the humanistic disciplines are examined. (JMD)

Professor Nelson Edmondson suggests a teaching procedure in which humanities teachers would treat the various mythologies, philosophies, and theologies as "hypotheses of equal status". After describing this approach and considering his conceptions on the nature of hypotheses and the meaning of equal status, author examines the proper…

The major approaches to faculty development are examined: the personal approach; faculty development programs; curricular changes and faculty renewal; and the humanities as a resource for faculty renewal. The value of faculty development may ultimately be in increased administrator awareness of faculty's changing needs and aspirations. (LBH)

To treat the patient as a whole person, the medical student first must be treated as a whole person. This can be accomplished through the humanities, although the teaching method is important. (LBH)

The political realities of funding and leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities are described, with emphasis on the power of Senator Claiborne Pell. (LBH)

Interdisciplinary research is seen as coming of age across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with interdisciplinary thought most substantive in the sciences. For that reason, some observers suggest that the gulf between scientific and humanistic learning may be widening. (MLW)

A review of the undergraduate physical education curricula in Canadian universities revealed sparse offerings in the humanities when compared to the biophysical and social sciences. Recommendations are made to reorder the curriculum to provide better balance between the two areas. (Author/CB)

Discusses the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 1985 summer seminar on Plato's political philosophy. States that the objective of the seminar was to give high school teachers an opportunity for intensive, uninterrupted study of the world's great literature so they could enrich their own knowledge of the subject and share what they gained…

North Carolina State's humanities-extension program operates through the university's cooperative-extension service. The program was begun when there was a realization that future interest in the humanities might drop, and the university wanted to find outreach outlets for the school's faculty members. (MLW)