In the late 1970s, it became clear to a group of Kirkwood Community College (KCC) faculty and administrators that fewer and fewer students were taking humanities courses, that students' selection of courses was usually imbalanced, and that most had little idea of what the term "humanities" embraced. With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the group developed an integrated humanities program to replace the previous assortment of disconnected humanities courses. The most important product of their effort was a significantly strengthened associate in arts (AA) degree program. The new program stiffened core requirements by increasing the number of general education credit hours required for graduation, by restructuring the core categories to ensure a better balance of exposure to humanities disciplines, and by decreasing the number of core courses to include only the most rigorous offerings. This description of KCC's humanities project includes: (1) a brief summary of the project; (2) a description of the project's planning phase, during which requirements were reviewed, a philosophical framework was developed, and interdisciplinary connections were discovered; (3) a description of the AA core curriculum, including lists of general and specific degree requirements and of core courses; (4) information on the interdisciplinary general education course, "Encounters in Humanities," which emphasizes the skill of critical inquiry; (5) a summary of the NEH grant proposal; and (6) a brochure on arts and sciences degree requirements. (EJV)