North Dakota State University (Fargo, ND 58102-1843)
Carrie Anne Platt (Project Director: September 2014 to September 2017)
AQ-228816-15
Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
Education Programs
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Totals:
$21,987 (approved)
$18,938 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2015 – 5/31/2017
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NEH Enduring Questions Course on the Purpose of Education
The development and teaching of a new course for sophomores and juniors on changing concepts of an educated person.
This project develops a new course on a fundamental concern of human life as addressed by the humanities - the enduring question, "What is an educated person?" The proposed course will use the tension between liberal education and professional training as a lens for considering how this question has shaped Western thought since the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and as a means of making the history of education come alive for today's students.
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