Many instructors strive to encourage student reading outside of class and active learning in class. One pedagogical tool, structured reading questions, can help do both. Using examples from question sets across six courses, the authors illustrate how reading questions can help students achieve the six active-learning principles described by…

Describes a seminar on German women writers of the twentieth century given in English translation at Stanford University. The purpose was to enable young college women to identify with outstanding individuals in their fields. By exploring their works they would have a source of information on suitable female models. (TL)

This article presents a prospectus and bibliography for a course on "German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century" given at Stanford University in English. Selections are limited to authors available in English translation. (Author/TL)

A conversation with a noted historian of the American West concerns his own career and writing, and changes and trends in the college curriculum and profession of teaching. (MSE)

Images of Black women in Hispanic literature tend to be the work of White authors or Black male authors who, however well-intentioned, cannot articulate the direct, lived experience of the black, Hispanic woman. Moreover, the image of the Black woman in Spain and Latin America is the result of a slavocratic, patriarchal system and, therefore,…

The writings of Martin Luther King Jr. deserve to be read in undergraduate humanities classes but not in the spirit advocated by former Secretary of Education William Bennett. It is argued that Bennett downplays the struggles against racial discrimination and chooses the most conservative King pieces for the literary canon. (SLD)