Word: hummings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skepticism towards teaching any course with more than just words has slackend a bit. And the change has happily come under the auspices of the new General Education program. Daniel Seltzer, associate professor of English, has gained approval from the Committee on General Education for his new course, Hum 105--"The Literature and Practice of Drama...
Seltzer now needs only the approval of the Committee on Educational Policy--expected later this Spring--for the course to become an official offering. Course work in Hum 105 will involve not only the usual lectures and discussion, but also the production of one of the plays studied. For the first time credit will be given for work on the Loeb Mainstage...
...Hum 4, the lower-level course offered this year by Seltzer and Loeb director Robert Chapman, had much the same goals as the new course, but was stymied by its large enrollment. Hum 105 will have a strictly limited enrollment preventing it from deteriorating into just one more, "we must try to imagine how this appeared on stage lecture-only course...
Lord explained that Hum 9 would consider in broad perspective topics that specialised courses and seminars have traditionally studied separately and in greater detail...
While most lower-level humanities courses begin with and concentrate on Homer, Hum 9 will give students an opportunity to read the Homeric epics in conjunction with the Bible. Lord thinks that people rarely realize that in fact these were written in part simultaneously, somewhere around the eighth century...