The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education

The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309470641

In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly calibrated to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs.

Humanities

Humanities
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1991
Genre: Education, Humanistic
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The Humanities

The Humanities
Author: Ron Blazek
Publisher: Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1994
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781563081682

Updated and expanded to embrace developments in the electronic environment and new emphases on multicultural and female influences and accomplishments, this text offers a reliable guide to humanities information sources published through summer 1994. More comprehensive than previous editions, it includes approximately 1,250 main entries (the last edition contained 973), with increases equally proportioned in all sections. In addition, it has many more coentries and minor entries described within the annotations of major entries. Chapters cover general humanities, philosophy, religion, visual arts, performing arts, and language and literature. For each area there is one chapter on sources and another on access. Designed for teachers and students in schools of library and information science, previous editions of this book have been widely adopted as a text in library schools. It is also valuable to reference librarians, collection development officers in libraries, humanities scholars, and others wi

Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Author: Susan Peck MacDonald
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2010-08-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0809385996

In Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Susan Peck MacDonald tackles important and often controversial contemporary questions regarding the rhetoric of inquiry, the social construction of knowledge, and the professionalization of the academy. MacDonald argues that the academy has devoted more effort to analyzing theory and method than to analyzing its own texts. Professional texts need further attention because they not only create but are also shaped by the knowledge that is special to each discipline. Her assumption is that knowledge-making is the distinctive activity of the academy at the professional level; for that reason, it is important to examine differences in the ways the professional texts of subdisciplinary communities focus on and consolidate knowledge within their fields. Throughout the book, MacDonald stresses her conviction that academics need to do a better job of explaining their text-making axioms, clarifying their expectations of students at all levels, and monitoring their own professional practices. MacDonald’s proposals for both textual and sentence-level analysis will help academic professionals better understand how they might improve communication within their professional communities and with their students.