Strengthening Foreign Language and Intercultural Study at MTU

Recipient: Boschetto, Sandra M (Houghton, MI 49931-0000 USA) in affiliation with Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI 49931 USA)

Goal: To support the development of a senior-level foreign language curriculum, including three interdisciplinary senior seminars.

Grant: 142806 / EL-20181-87,   Category: Languages,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1987

Workshops in Humanistic Narrative for ECC Faculty

Recipient: Siferd, Nancy (Tiffin, OH 44883 USA) in affiliation with East Central Colleges Consortium

Goal: To support faculty development seminars in history and literature, focusing on a set of narrative texts.

Grant: 142805 / EL-20177-87,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1987

Use of Archives in American Studies

Recipient: Riddell, Thomas (Northampton, MA 01063 USA) in affiliation with Smith College

Goal: To support a plan to increase the use of archival sources in undergraduate American studies courses by providing 11 faculty members with opportunities to select materials from the Sophia Smith archive located on the campus.

Grant: 142807 / EL-20183-87,   Category: American Studies,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1987

Ideas and Values: Inquiry and Analysis in Western Culture

Recipient: Conway, Jeremiah P (Portland, ME 04103 USA) in affiliation with University of Southern Maine

Goal: To support the development of the third and fourth courses in a four-course introductory humanities sequence for a recently established honors program.

Grant: 142808 / EL-20184-87,   Category: Western Civilization,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1987

Initiation of an Undergraduate Concentration in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Recipient: Williams, L. Pearce (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University

Goal: To support three tenure-track assistant professorships in the history and philosophy of science and technology. The first is a position in the philo- sophy of 20th-century physics, the second, in the history of technology, and the third in communication concerns the nature of writing in the sciences.

Grant: 142798 / EL-20158-86,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

The Literary, Philosophical, and Historical Background of the Law: An Undergraduate Major in Law and Society

Recipient: Cassidy, John Robert (Mahwah, NJ 07430 USA) in affiliation with Ramapo College of New Jersey

Goal: To support the creation of an undergraduate major in law and society through released time for faculty members, consultants, and library and audio-visual acquisitions.

Grant: 142803 / EL-20168-86,   Category: Law and Jurisprudence,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

Improvement of the Folklore Program at the University of Wisconsin

Recipient: Ingwersen, Niels (Madison, WI 53706 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison

Goal: To support the development of four new courses and the revision of two existing courses in folklore.

Grant: 142797 / EL-20155-86,   Category: Folklore/Folklife,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

A Plan to Develop, Implement, and Evaluate a Total Language Curriculum

Recipient: Boo, Sr. Mary R (Duluth, MN 55811 USA) in affiliation with College of St. Scholastica

Goal: To support implementation of a new language instruction program in French and in Spanish by means of released time for faculty members, summer stipends, and consultants.

Grant: 142804 / EL-20170-86,   Category: French Language,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

A Mentoring and Seminar Program for English Faculty

Recipient: Brown, Carole O (Macon, GA 31297-0000 USA) in affiliation with Hamline University (Saint Paul, MN 55104 USA)

Goal: To support a faculty development seminar in the English department on literary criticism by means of a mentoring arrangememt between a retiring faculty memberand a new assistant professor, and a reevaluation of the department's litera- ture courses.

Grant: 142800 / EL-20161-86,   Category: English,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

Classics Cluster

Recipient: Pascal, Nanette R (Dallas, TX 75243 USA) in affiliation with Dallas County Community College District (Dallas, TX 75202 USA)

Goal: To support the integration of materials from the classical heritage of Western culture into an existing cluster of general education courses.

Grant: 142799 / EL-20159-86,   Category: Classics,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

Primary Resource Materials in the Humanities: A Program to Improve Course Content and Student Writing Skills in History

Recipient: Shaughnessy, Thomas W (Columbia, MO 65211 USA) in affiliation with University of Missouri, Columbia

Goal: To support the increased use of primary source materials in history courses through joint planning and workshops for library staff and history faculty.

Grant: 142801 / EL-20164-86,   Category: History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

Fostering Improved Humanities Education for Science Students

Recipient: Singleton, Rivers (Newark, DE 19716 USA) in affiliation with University of Delaware

Goal: To support the development of humanities courses with significant writing com- ponents for science courses: biology and literature, computers and human nature, the culture of science, the nature of scientific inquiry, and philosophy of mind.

Grant: 142796 / EL-20142-86,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

The New Political Economy Core

Recipient: Teichgraeber, Richard F (New Orleans, LA 70118-0000 USA) in affiliation with Tulane University (New Orleans, LA 70118 USA)

Goal: To support the development of five required courses for a new program in polit-ical economy which will emphasize the historical and theoretical aspects of thedisciplines of economics, political science, and jurisprudence.

Grant: 124570 / EL-20154-86,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

A Proposal to Strengthen the Quality of the Senior Seminar and Provide Institute-wide Study of the U.S. Constitution

Recipient: Murdoch, David D (Rochester, NY 14623-0000 USA) in affiliation with Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY 14623 USA)

Goal: To support faculty released time, a faculty seminar, visiting professors, and various public events related to the teaching of a required senior seminar on the U.S. Constitution.

Grant: 124567 / EL-20149-86,   Category: American Studies,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

Ideas and Values: Inquiry and Analysis in Western Culture

Recipient: Rogoff, Martin A (Portland, ME 04103 USA) in affiliation with University of Southern Maine

Goal: To support a summer faculty seminar and development of the first two courses ofthe university's new honors program.

Grant: 124568 / EL-20152-86,   Category: Western Civilization,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

Our Classical Legacy Restored

Recipient: Meszaros, Paul F (Ladysmith, WI 54848-0000 USA) in affiliation with Mount Senario College (Ladysmith, WI 54848 USA)

Goal: To support planning for a two-term honors course examining the medieval and Renaissance periods of Western civilization. Funds will cover the released time for three faculty members, a librarian, and the cost of library acquisi- tions.

Grant: 142802 / EL-20165-86,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

Assessment of Institutional and Student Needs Regarding the Inclusion of World Civilization in the College Core

Recipient: Anglin, Jay P (Hattiesburg, MS 39406 USA) in affiliation with University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001 USA)

Goal: To support a two-day workshop to discuss and assess the inclusion of world civilization in core courses for 30 history professors from colleges and universities in Mississippi.

Grant: 124569 / EL-20153-86,   Category: History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1986

The Humanist Teacher

Recipient: Greaves, Thomas C (San Antonio, TX 78284 USA) in affiliation with Trinity University (San Antonio, TX 78212 USA)

Goal: To support the development of a revised curriculum for elementary education majors, designed to establish the humanities as the foundation for the students' future work as teachers.

Grant: 124564 / EL-20116-85,   Category: Education,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1985

The Establishment of a Proficiency-Based Foreign Language Curriculum at a Large Urban Public University

Recipient: James, Dorothy (New York, NY 10021 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College

Goal: To support the establishment of a revised foreign language curriculum grounded on proficiency testing. The languages included in the project are Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian.

Grant: 142790 / EL-20096-85,   Category: Languages,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1985

Undergraduate Program in Science, Technology and Values

Recipient: McMullin, Ernan (Notre Dame, IN 46556-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA)

Goal: To support the establishment of an undergraduate concentration consisting of a sequence of five courses in the humanities, all of which relate to issues of science and technology.

Grant: 142791 / EL-20108-85,   Category: History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 1985