Describes the state of the art" in undergraduate programs in order to survey alternate directions for many schools now planning such programs. (DM)

The development of democratic values as preparation for citizenship is liberal education's true function. Values education should include these forms of inquiry: values analysis, awareness, assessment, alteration, and affirmation. Students can test values against the criteria of consistency, coherence, duration, adequacy, comprehensiveness,…

Like all newly emerging disciplines or areas of inquiry and learning, Ethnic Studies have consistently been challenged to acquire that academic responsibility which ensures survival and growth in higher education. Since the survival of Ethnic Studies is more real than speculative, this paper will investigate the problems confronting Ethnic Studies…

Discusses the changing role of the cataloger and the lack of comprehensiveness in cataloging and classification courses offered in graduate library programs. The information that should be covered in introductory courses is outlined and the value of such courses to catalogers and noncatalogers is explored. (36 references) (CLB)

Traces the history of the debate over the definition of liberal education and the extent to which education should be liberal. Contrasts the position of Aristotle with those of his teachers, and of later theorists, including John Dewey, Mortimer Adler, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Allan Bloom, and E. D. Hirsch. (DMM)

Considers the various educational roles that community colleges have played in attempts to be democratizing institutions and their success in fulfilling these roles. Advocates structured, sequential education in college-level courses, and the development of action agendas focusing on college identity, financing, accountability, scholarship, and…

As a pedagogy for citizenship, academic service learning offers students the opportunity to experience and reflect on how citizens organize to bring their communities and their country closer to democracy. The three-course Democracy Project at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) illustrates how this approach can be developed within a college…

In the technological world of the Twenty-first Century, students must be information literate. They must have the skills to access, evaluate, and utilize information needed in their undergraduate experience and in their future endeavors. It is important for Geography majors to acquire these skills as part of their undergraduate education. At an…

A 3-year law curriculum is outlined based on studying law as an applied social science to maximize its relevance to social life. The author contrasts it to curriculum designed to create technocrats competent in the legislative process and notes that immense changes would be necessary to implement such a curriculum. (JT)

Guidelines for the higher education curriculum are presented, with attention directed to prerequisite courses, general education, educational objectives, criteria for selecting staff to monitor required courses, and professional education. Two specific concerns are the need to provide specific and well-written course descriptions in the general…

Views from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era are traced concerning the role of faculty in collegiate education, the curriculum, and desired learning outcomes. Previous educational thought concerning faculty, curricula, and mission provides a historical paradigm in which the ideological orientation of the 1985 Association of American Colleges'…

Perspectives on the 1985 Association of American Colleges' report, "Integrity in the College Curriculum," are presented, with attention to connections between the report and ideas from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using quotes from philosophers and scholars, attention is directed to: why the report was written and what it is…

Focusing on the concept of education for work vs. education for living, the author presents a comparative analysis of two works on liberal education, each of which was originally delivered orally to university students: "The Inaugural Address at the University of St. Andrew" by John Stuart Mill and "The University of Utopia" by…

The many forms of interdisciplinarity in higher education institutions and the various ways it has been used to advance curricular changes are examined. Definitions of interdisciplinarity and its variants (multi-, pluri-, and transdisciplinarity) provide a conceptual framework for the examination. In this study, interdisciplinarity is understood…