Design of Program of Integrative Studies

FAIN: ED-10025-70

Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559)
Marilyn Somville (Project Director: March 1970 to present)

Grant to plan three-term Integrative Studies program to be offered in junior and senior years; final stage in curriculum revision begun in 1966. Junior/senior level courses to integrate work in specific field with freshman/sophomore concentration on interdisciplinary studies. ABSTRACT: Grant to plan three-term Integrative Studies program to be offered in junior and senior years; final stage in curriculum revision begun in 1966. Junior/senior level courses to integrate work in specific field with freshman/sophomore concentration on interdisciplinary studies. Centre's junior/senior level courses to explore literature, arts, language, science, history, philosophy which constitute man's intellectual inheritance and underlie his quest for understanding in the present. Man needs awareness of contemporary world, critical recognition of underlying values and self-understanding to discern own commitments and desired ends. Preservation and advancement of free society demand citizens whose capacity to judge and to act are thus developed. Funds for salaries (coordinator, faculty, secretary), supplies, travel.