Undergraduate Majors: Strange Lands, Strange Languages, Useful Miracles.

Lanham, Richard A.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Undergraduate Majors: Strange Lands, Strange Languages, Useful Miracles.

Lanham, Richard A.

Liberal Education, v73 n4 p7-13 Sep-Oct 1990

Curricular incoherence at the undergraduate level cannot successfully be countered by lower-division distribution requirements and proposals for a core curriculum. An alternative appropriate to a technological age of various specializations emphasizes development of communication and rhetorical skills across disciplines. (DB)

Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy, General Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Liberal Arts, Majors (Students), Rhetoric, Student Educational Objectives

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