Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1985
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Civilization classes altered
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
The teachings of the great thinkers will be taught differently next fall under changes in the Western Civilization program, a professor of philosophy and religious studies said yesterday.
The 40-year-old program will be revamped under a $120,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The program has been criticized recently because few full-time faculty members teach the courses.
The grant will be used to carry out six changes by Dec. 31, 1987.
The changes reflect work done by the Western Civilization Advisory Committee to complement the improvement of KU's liberal arts program.
James Woelfel, the professor and one of the writers of the proposal, said the revisions were intended to encourage more faculty to become involved in the program and to give students a stronger background in the study of Western thought.
"The problems have not been with the quality of the graduate teaching assistants," he said. "The problem is that so few faculty have been involved in the program."
The plan to change the Western Civilization program was included in a grant proposal written last year and successfully submitted to NEH by Woeifel and Sarah Truelove, assistant director for administration of the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for Humanistic Studies.
The revision will shape all Western Civilization courses to appear as the WC 134 and WC 135 courses do. The two courses include two lecture sections along with one small group discussion a week.
Six new half-time faculty positions will be created to conduct lectures and to direct the coordinated work of graduate teaching assistants who lead discussions.
Graduate teaching assistants will lead discussion sections and will work closely with the faculty team to organize discussions that complement the lectures. Graduate
assistant's lead about eight discussion sections in the current program.
A new component of the program will be the inclusion of audio-visual support. Films, slides, literary works, art and music will be included to make the readings more interesting and place them in a cultural and historical perspective, he said.
The readings list also will be revised and may include textbooks. The list should remain unchanged for three to five years, he said.
The changes also encourage a development of meaningful writing assignments, with the help of the new KU Writing Center, to go along with weekly readings, he said.
About 3,800 students in the program read representative samples of writing from about 30 great Western thinkers, ranging from Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus and Theocydides from ancient Greece to more contemporary writers such as Lenin, Luther, Dostoyevsky, and Darwin. Topics include philosophy, theology, political theory and scientific discovery.
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