Reforming Liberal Education And the Core After the Twentieth Century ― Selected Papers from the Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts And Courses Montreal, Canada April 4-7, 2002

This volume contains selected papers from the Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses held in Montreal, Canada, in April of 2002. Wudel (Averett U.) et al. assemble 25 papers on the title's theme. Contributors, who are from universities in Canada and the US, explore how to build programs, integrate assessment, teach specific texts in the humanities curriculum--among them The Divine Comedy, Aristotle's Poetics, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Descartes' Meditations--use the sciences and humanities together, and address issues in using core texts in liberal education. There is no index. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Darcy Wudel is an Associate Professor at Averett University in Danville, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Toronto, Canada and is a contributor to numerous scholarly journals.J. Scott Lee is an Executive Director, ACTC Liberal Arts Institute at St. Mary's College. Lee has advised over 50 institutions of higher learning on the reform and renewal of sound, general liberal education curricula. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Ronald J. Weber is an Associate Professor and is the Director of Western Cultural Heritage Program at University of Texas, El Paso. He received his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Wisconsin.