Federal Grant Spawns Humanities Course for a College's Ethnically Diverse Students. How the Billions of Dollars in the President's 1991 Budget Translate into Bread-and-Butter Issues at Six Colleges and Universities.

Myers, Christopher

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Publication Date: 1990

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Federal Grant Spawns Humanities Course for a College's Ethnically Diverse Students. How the Billions of Dollars in the President's 1991 Budget Translate into Bread-and-Butter Issues at Six Colleges and Universities.

Myers, Christopher

Chronicle of Higher Education, v36 n21 pA27 Feb 7 1990

A $140,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities has allowed Heritage College (Washington) to develop a set of courses that incorporate literature and philosophy from Hispanic and American Indian traditions, as well as from Western and non-Western cultures in a thematic approach to the humanities. (DB)

Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Grants, Higher Education, Hispanic American Culture, Non Western Civilization, Western Civilization

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