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Cultural Studies and General Education
Summer 2004
Volume 90, Number 3
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CONTENTS:
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
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CULTURAL
PLURALISM AND CIVIC VALUES
by Carol Geary Schneider
FEATURED TOPIC
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TEACHING
CULTURE
By Peter N. Stearns
How can cultural studies contribute to the reform
of general education and key liberal education outcomes?
Infusing cultural studies into general education
offers the possibility of providing students with
skills and perspectives, knowledge and habits of
mind that will better equip them to understand their
own society, their global involvement, and their
own lives.
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WHAT'S
A CULTURAL STUDIES CURRICULUM DOING
IN A COLLEGE LIKE THIS?
By Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Danna Greenberg
The field of cultural studies involves examining
the role of representation in language, image, and
text as both producer and reflection of cultural
power relations. Its pedagogical expression at a
college of business presents particularly complex
and interesting strategies for learning.
- EXPLORING
REALITY:
CULTURAL STUDIES AND CRITICAL THINKING
By Paul Smith
Cultural analysis provides innovative ways of thinking
about a complex world. It explores reality as a dynamic
and interactive process between culture and the material
world. For this reason, it could make a significant
contribution to undergraduate education.
PERSPECTIVES
- 1930 - WORLD PEACE AND THE COLLEGE:
THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
By Guy E. Snavely
The experience of a recently ended war on a world
scale and the intimations of future conflict impel
the then-president of the Association of American
Colleges to reflect on war's toll and the will to
peace. He sees higher education as a means of working
for peace.
- POLITICAL BIAS IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
By Thomas Ehrlich and Anne Colby
Do we need an Academic Bill of Rights?
- BUILDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CAPACITY:
AN INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY EXAMPLE
By Garon C. Smith
A chemistry professor at a research university tells
how he structures a course for both student learning
and contributing to the local community so that the
university fills its role as a good neighbor. Stimulating
civic engagement among students fulfills the mission
of the institution and the department's needs.
- QUALITY IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:
A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
By Susan Albertine and Ronald J. Henry
Quality in Higher Education (QUE) joined twenty-one
two- and four-year colleges and universities in four
states in a project for reforming the undergraduate
curriculum. After five years, with evidence of progress,
the project offers useful lessons about the process,
production, and assessment of effective curricula.
MY VIEW
- RAWLS, NEUSTADT, AND LIBERAL EDUCATION:
A REFLECTION ON TWO SCHOLARS
By Mary B. Marcy
A tribute to John Rawls and Richard Neustadt, two
eminent political scientists and models of liberal
education, is given both for their ideas and the impact
they had on their field and in personal memories of
them.
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