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Program

Education Programs: Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants

Period of Performance

5/1/2013 - 4/30/2016

Funding Totals

$25,000.00 (approved)
$25,000.00 (awarded)

NEH Enduring Questions Course on "What Is the Relationship Between Tradition and Innovation?"

FAIN: AQ-50825-13

Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA 52314-1098)
James L. Martin (Project Director: September 2012 to June 2016)

The development of an interdisciplinary undergraduate humanities course that asks how we reconcile tradition and innovation.

Development of a course that approaches the question of how we reconcile tradition and innovation through the study of myth, drama, music/opera, literature, criticism, and essays, from antiquity through the 20th century.