Humanities Expansion Project

FAIN: GY-10299-74

Richard M. Van Nort
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY 10028-0113)

To develop a greater appreciation of the relation of the arts and humanities to American society, to give students a broad-based introduction to humanities problem solving, and to prepare students to design and teach their own courses, either - in their own schools or at the Metropolitan Museum. The Project consists of a curriculum of eight-courses dealing with arts, history and criticism, literature, poetry, history, and American political philosophy