Reaching Out: Interdisciplinarity, Foreign Language Departments, and the Liberal Arts Curriculum

Profession ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Curriculum

Something is Happening But You Don't Know What It is, Do You, Mr. Jones?

PMLA ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-422
Author(s):  
Henry Nash Smith
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Language Program ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Study And Teaching ◽  
Basic Issue ◽  
Arts Curriculum ◽  
Faculty Exchange

Stirrings of protest within the MLA during the past year challenge many received ideas about the structure and functioning of the Association. For example, we need to consider constitutional revisions transferring power from the Executive Council to a more representative legislative body. There is a basic disagreement within the MLA between conservatives who believe that the study and teaching of literature should be and can be “objective,” and radicals who maintain that such a claim is fraudulent because if the scholar fails to denounce the existing social and economic order, he is in effect an apologist for it. Although the Foreign Language Program has been characterized as merely an adjunct to American imperialism, it has operated primarily to increase study of major European languages long a part of the liberal arts curriculum. The Faculty Exchange, which has been vigorously criticized, is highly useful to small departments; the question of its abolition requires careful study. These various controversies are generated by conflicting notions of how the MLA should serve society. We must resolve the basic issue if we are to maintain the integrity and effectiveness of the intellectual enterprise to which our profession commits us.

Playwriting in the Liberal-Arts Curriculum

1939 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Kenneth Thorpe Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Curriculum

To Unify the Liberal-Arts Curriculum

1932 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Harvey A. Wooster
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Curriculum

Machine learning in the liberal arts curriculum

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Clare Bates Congdon
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Curriculum

scholarly journals Thinking Through Improvisation: Do General Improvisation Studies Belong in a Liberal Arts Curriculum?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Poccia
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Reading Performance ◽  
First Year ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Arts Curriculum ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Liberal Arts Students ◽  
First Year Seminar

Thinking Through Improvisation implies two meanings: 1) carefully examining all that improvisation encompasses including how it is practiced, and 2) using improvisation to generate ideas or performances. Using a First Year Seminar course I taught for 20 years, I illustrate how a general course in improvisation can introduce students to improvisation as a way of thinking in diverse fields and can strengthen liberal arts skills in critical and creative thinking. Interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches are readily incorporated as are a range of activities including writing, critical reading, performance, and creative problem solving. Risk taking, trust, creativity, adaptability, teamwork, respect for knowledge, abstract and practical thinking and the joy of creative discovery are explored through discussion and practice of improvisation. Scientific explanations of improvisation are compared to subjective experiences of improvisational performance. These activities lay a groundwork for creative explorations of the discipline-oriented curriculum in the range of fields subsequently encountered by liberal arts students.  

Why a Foreign Language Requirement?

PMLA ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
William R. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Colleges ◽  
American Education ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
Foreign Language Requirement ◽  
Language Requirement

This essay concerns a situation in more than 800 liberal arts colleges, though some of its points apply elsewhere in American education. The question posed—why a foreign language requirement?—has fresh relevance because the 1930–1950 trend of dropping this requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree has very recently been reversed.

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