Reviews trends and influences in English education during the past decade and predicts changes that will transpire during the '70s; appears also in "Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 5 (May 1970), 607-11. (SW)

Reviews trends and influences in English education during the past decade and predicts changes that will transpire during the '70s; appears also in "English Journal," vol. 59, no. 5 (May 1970), 692-96. (SW)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) in Denver, Colorado, December 1969. (DS)

Describes a two-year college science program designed to study not only the scientific conepts, but the humanistic aspects of the interaction of science and society. The courses are historically developed utilizing the physical sciences the first year, and the life sciences the second year. (RR)

Defends the role of humanities instruction in the education of engineering undergraduates in the areas of problem solving, risk taking, and the synthesis of metaphors and symbols. (AEA)

Sees the electronic revolution as an opportunity for English teachers to reshape the educational futures of the country, to regain some of the audiences they have lost, and to maintain the vitality of the humanities. (AEA)

Presents arguments why science and engineering majors need to take courses in the humanities and why humanities majors need science courses. Suggests that aerospace education serves as an excellent and dramatic example of the correct approach to technological development and cites a sample course. (DC)

In light of declining enrollments and decreasing funding in colleges and universities, humanities curricula should be reorganized to overcome negative student attitudes toward humanities courses. Recounts the successful use of collaborative learning experiences in teaching poetry and suggests the development of interdisciplinary career-option…

Credits classics programs with the earliest experiments in the interdisciplinary approach, showing how classics, as the study of all aspects of two important cultures, the Greek and the Roman, are particularly well-equipped to develop a diversified curriculum. Discusses current opportunities for maintaining this trend and developing outreach…

Argues for a renewed integration of the humanities to ensure that the white-collar working class will be literate in the broadest sense of the word. (AEA)

The Adult College Opportunity Program at California State College, San Bernardino, is described. Humanities core courses, which offer training in writing and thinking skills and practice applying those skills, are combined with a seminar series on adult development patterns and learning styles. (Author/MLW)

Humanities programs that involve citizens in discovering the relevance of the humanities to contemporary American experience are supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities through its state affiliates. State humanities agencies, catalysts in program design and delivery, and some programs are described. (Author/MLW)

The liberal arts college's role has always been education for intellectual excellence and technical competence, grounded in a sensitivity for the dimension of depth in human experience. As American culture becomes more urban and more secular, the liberal arts colleges must maintain their essential task of asking ultimate questions. (Author/MLW)

Drawing in many cases from documents in the ERIC junior colleges collection, cites examples of programs using four approaches to integrating the humanities into occupational curricula: interdisciplinary courses; specialized courses for targeted occupations, humanities modules in use and in production, and use of resource materials or people. (AYC)