Relates one woman's experience in teaching women about women, and presents statistics on and the experiences of both the women who teach and the women taught. Suggests that integrating new scholarship on women can have a potentially radical but deeply beneficial impact on university curriculum. (Author/BL)

Philosophy should teach respect for reason, respect for the classics, and respect for the radical criticisms of the twentieth century. It is the only university discipline that takes the development of informed discretion as its primary pedagogical task. (MSE)

Education for peace and international cooperation cannot be confined to a single discipline, but should be interdisciplinary and central to the university curriculum. Although UNESCO has begun development of a pedagogy of peace, other international organizations focusing on peace education need coordination to be effective. (MSE)

Examines the question of what teachers can do to make their lectures and assigned readings more interesting. Argues that instructors must seriously address the crucial role of both logic and emotion in pedagogy. Maintains that teachers must speak, read, and write not only to be understood, but also to be felt and freely responded to by the…

A curriculum design that focuses on the human sciences, the disciplines that concern themselves with the social and individual activities that are distinctively human, would be a better approach than the current separation of the humanities and social sciences. (MSE)

Cites the Rockefeller Commission's findings regarding humanistic studies. Outlines steps for bringing humanism back to the humanities, e.g., by clarifying the humanities' substance and identity, elucidating a cogent and persuasive rationale for their study, and underscoring the importance of a cultural/humanistic context for vocational training.…

Quotations from a variety of literature are used to illustrate the perspective that English instruction, as part of the humanities curriculum, has an essential place in the college curriculum and is indeed relevant to modern higher education. (MSE)

The next generation of Americans will need to understand technology, including the modeling techniques and problem-solving modes developed by technological decision makers. Courses in technological literacy, developed at several institutions (SUNY Stony Brook, University of Central Florida, Lehigh, Penn State, MIT, UCLA) to demystify the applied…

The programs that will become the chief medium for giving women's studies a permanent place in the academic world are those in which scholars with other intellectual affiliations and interests work simultaneously (1) to develop women's studies and (2) to integrate its materials into the long-established university department. (MLW)

Realizing the ideal of the interdisciplinary university has been problematic. The interdisciplinary system may not be able to survive in the university because of the educational process, which is unused to operating as an open system. The University of Houston-Clear Lake City experience is described. (MSE)

Defines the scope of the humanities. Discusses the role of the humanities in community colleges and the responsibility of humanities instructors to strengthen the discipline. Itemizes the qualities of humanists and identifies them as stereotypically feminine. Discusses the implications for male and female instructors. (DD)

Some major circumstances that require the development of new curriculum models are briefly discussed, and a statement of what a curriculum model must include to be viable is presented. (Article originally published in 1965.) (AF)

Argues that acceptance then management of collective knowledge is increasingly important and that individual understanding and views toward the world are less valued. Considers the implications of this perspective for chemistry instruction. (DDR)

The effects of pluralism on today's college campuses are intense. The place held by religion in this context is often awkward, but as a dimension of diversity and a potent force in human interaction, it deserves the same tolerance as any other aspect of pluralism and should not be trivialized. (MSE)

There are two approaches to multiculturalism in the college curriculum, the formally academic and the political. Few proponents of either have defined with precision what their multiculturalism would be in practice. The challenge is to describe the common culture while preserving integrity of cultures not yet part of traditional conformity. (MSE)