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The experimental Directed Studies program was adopted after World War II as an honors undergraduate track. The program was conservative and reactionary in its attempt to revive the tradition of teaching a classical curriculum and its accompanying "community of intellectual experience".[1] A 1951 article in Time magazine brought the program national prominence as "Yale's boldest attempt to make education whole"—a leading effort to revitalize the practice of teaching "universal knowledge" by uniting studies in history, literature, and science through philosophy.[2] Only open to a few freshmen,[3] it began as a four-year program before dropping to a single-year course with an optional second year. The program had continual funding issues and was at one point rescued by a grant from Paul Mellon. It evolved into a single-year program with three yearlong seminars in literature, philosophy, and political philosophy.[4]
In 1995, Yale expanded enrollment from 85 students to 125 as part of a gesture to affirm the importance of Western civilization studies in the college amid pressure from alumni.[5]
Directed Studies served as a model for the common curriculum shared between first-year students at Yale-NUS College, Yale's partnership with the National University of Singapore. The faculty of the college, which opened in 2013, expanded the great books program to include Asian literature, scientific inquiry, and quantitative reasoning. The required, common nature of the courses was expected to foster community.[8]
mentions
- [9]
- Directed Studies is a Great Books curriculum at Yale. As of 2008, the program was limited to 125 students a year. Journalist Charles Lane praised Yale for offering the program as an alternative to nihilism in the humanities.[10]
- optional program (compared to Columbia), solely Western texts[11]
- if needed, NUS's first-year required curriculum\[12]
Program alumni include art historian Kermit S. Champa,[13] rhetoric scholar Richard A. Lanham,[14] former Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead,[15] Frederick Crews, David Frum, and T. K. Seung. Instructors associated with the program include Charles Hill,[cn] Anthony Kronman,[16] Donald Kagan,[17] and historian Thomas Corwin Mendenhall,[18]
- context re previous programs footnote 9: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/45423
- cf. UT Core Texts[19]
See also
[edit]- Paul Mellon[20]
- Core Curriculum (Columbia College) – Great Books curriculum at Columbia College
References
[edit]- ^ Redfield 2015, pp. 46–47.
- ^ Redfield 2015, p. 46.
- ^ Chase, Alston (1993). "The Rise and Fall of General Education: 1945–1980". Academic Questions. 6 (2): 21. doi:10.1007/BF02683255. ISSN 0895-4852. S2CID 144388334. EBSCOhost 9701240365.
- ^ Redfield 2015, p. 210.
- ^ Rabinovitz, Jonathan (September 13, 1995). "Yale to Expand Teaching of Western Civilization". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ^ Fine, Benjamin (April 29, 1948). "Directed Studies a Success at Yale". The New York Times. ProQuest 108219005. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2014 – via ProQuest.
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- ^ Fine, Benjamin (May 2, 1948). "Yale Program May Determine Merits of Elective System as Opposed to Prescribed Courses". The New York Times. ProQuest 108207707. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2014 – via ProQuest. (Subscription required.)
- ^ Rosenberg, John S. (June 8, 2017). "An Educated Core". Harvard Magazine. Archived from the original on July 8, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ^ Fine, Benjamin (July 13, 1952). "Tutorial System Will Be Greatly Expanded Under a New Plan Adopted by Yale". The New York Times. ProQuest 112250140. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2014 – via ProQuest. (Subscription required.)
- ^ Lane, Charles (May 3, 2008). "The Art of Folly at Yale". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on April 23, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 1, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Panero, James (September 2004). "Kermit Swiler Champa, 1939-2004". New Criterion. 23 (1): 78. ISSN 0734-0222. EBSCOhost 14373046.
He ... chose Yale and its Directed Studies program, where he was awarded a scholarship and work-study.
- ^ Baker, William (1995). "Rev. of The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts by Richard A. Lanham". Style. 29 (1): 161. ISSN 0039-4238. EBSCOhost 9512191875.
Lanham entered the Directed Studies Program at Yale as a Ford-Foundation scholar.
- ^ Cohan, William D. (2014). The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities. Simon and Schuster.
As a Yale freshman, Brodhead was accepted into the highly selective 'Directed Studies' program...
- ^ Delbanco, Andrew (September 22, 2008). "A Higher Education". Commonweal. 135 (16): 10–13. ISSN 0010-3330. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ^ https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-854018311.html[permanent dead link]
- ^ Brelis, Matthew (July 21, 1998). "Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, 88". The Boston Globe. ProQuest 405234080.
While at Yale, he helped establish the Directed Studies Program, a program of general education.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 18, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Mouheb, Roberta Buckingham (February 2012). Yale Under God. ISBN 9781619968844. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- DeVane, William C. (April 1947). "The New Program in Yale College". The Journal of Higher Education. 18 (4): 189–193. doi:10.2307/1975135. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1975135.
- French, J. Milton (1946). "The New Curriculums of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton". College English. 8 (2): 73–82. doi:10.2307/371348. ISSN 0010-0994. JSTOR 371348.
- Levine, Arthur E.; Weingart, John R. (June 1972). "Directed Studies". Undergraduate Curriculum Evaluation: A Study of Eight Undergraduate Curriculum Structures at Twenty-Six Colleges: 61–63. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- Major, J. K. (January 1956). "Introductory Physics in a Program of Directed Studies". American Journal of Physics. 24 (1): 30–33. doi:10.1119/1.1934127. ISSN 0002-9505. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
- Hendel, Charles W. (1970). "Theodore Meyer Greene 1897-1969". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 44: 214–216. ISSN 0065-972X. JSTOR 3129707.
- Branch, Mark (July–August 2011). "Another shot at the classics". Yale Alumni Magazine. Vol. LXXIV, no. 6. ISSN 0044-0051. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- Hooker, A. (November 1961). "New directed studies program at Yale". Superior Student. 4: 14–17. ISSN 0585-9719.
- Moffitt, Donald (October 10, 1994). "U.S. Universities At an Economic Crossroads: Yale Grad, Class of '58, Joins the Yale Class of '98". Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition. New York, N.Y., United States. p. B1. ISSN 0099-9660. ProQuest 398508533. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2015 – via ProQuest.
- Theory at Yale, https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1643253 p46
- http://news.yale.edu/2017/04/04/70-years-later-and-still-same-verdict-ds-success Archived 2017-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4528-who-needs-the-great-books Archived 2020-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
- https://books.google.com/books?id=B2aDRhohtx8C&pg=PA409 Archived 2021-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
- https://books.google.com/books?id=S8wMlOagIHcC&pg=PA119 Archived 2021-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
- https://archive.org/details/sim_business-week_1954-05-15_1289/page/86/mode/1up
- Haden, James C. (December 1958). "Directed Studies at Yale". The Superior Student. 1: 2–4. ISSN 0585-9719.
- Cassidy, Harold G. (November 1959). "Directed Studies in Science". The Superior Student. 2 (7): 9–11. ISSN 0585-9719.
- The Yale Directed Studies in Science Program received a five-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation in 1959.[1]
- Levine, Arthur (1973). "Special Programs". Reform of Undergraduate Education. Jossey-Bass. p. 38–. ISBN 978-0-87589-186-6.
- https://archive.org/details/the-weekly-standard-1996-06-24/page/n13/mode/1up?q=%22directed+studies%22+
- https://archive.org/details/ERIC_EJ1000647/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22directed+studies%22+
- https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED112719/page/n60/mode/1up?q=%22directed+studies%22+ 1970s
- https://archive.org/details/sim_college-english-association-cea-critic_1947-02_9_2/mode/2up?q=%22directed+studies%22+ 40s
- Zaremby, Justin (2006). Directed Studies and the Evolution of American General Education (PDF). New Haven: Whitney Humanities Center. ISBN 971-671-869-1.
Works cited
[edit]- Redfield, Marc (2015). Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America. Fordham University Press. pp. 46–47, 209–210. ISBN 978-0-8232-6870-2. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2017 – via Project MUSE.
Further reading
[edit]- Catlin, Daniel (1982). Liberal education at Yale: the Yale College course of study, 1945 - 1978. Washington, DC: Univ. Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-2797-6.
- Chaszar, Julianna K. (June 13, 2008). The Reinvention of Honors Programs in American Higher Education, 1955-1965 (Ph.D. dissertation). Pennsylvania State University. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- Kronman, Anthony T. (2007). Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. Yale University Press. pp. 6, 74, 251–254, 261–265. ISBN 978-0-300-13816-0.
- https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4528-who-needs-the-great-books Archived 2020-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
- https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/search/?keyword=%22directed+studies%22+yale
