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Article: Marrying science and the humanities: a new approach to teaching Western Civilization.
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- National Forum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1989
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Marrying Science and the Humanities
A New Approach to Teaching Western Civilization
For the past twelve years, the Honors Program at the University of Utah has offered rather unusual, interdisciplinary historically oriented humanities-science courses. Here I will give a brief account of this undertaking in the hope that it may be adaptable to the interests and opportunities of others.
The course is not a science course, as such, but a modification and extension of a Western Civilization course of the sort which many colleges and universities offer to incoming students. Notable examples are the Humanities Program at Reed College and the ...