Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIVE social science core courses deal with one or more aspects of the urban environment. Two will be primarily "lab" courses--the "lab" being the surrounding Washington community--in which the students study urban social and political institutions. Individual projects, such as attempts at community organizing, are encouraged...
...want to make education a two-way street," one faculty member said this summer, "we want the students to teach us as much as we teach the students. But mostly we want to get the students to realize that by growing up in an urban environment, they have already learned and expressed a great deal...
...underdeveloped world, and from both will try to draw parallels and divergences to and from the experience and attitudes of black people in America. There are also various literature, art and music courses, as well as more general studies of contemporary attitudes of black people and of urban life...
WITH their college education, FCC students will be better able to work in the Washington community, and this kind of activity is being encouraged at FCC. An act of Congress made the college a land-grant institution, the first such college in the country to be urban-oriented. College officials and students met with community leaders all summer to try to arrange cooperative programs--things like adult classes, and workshops and institutes and such...
...Union is divided into two sections--Publications and Community Organization. The Publications division will print a monthly newsletter and prepare position papers on various issues. The Community Organization division will try to implement those positions. Issues the HPU is concerned with range from foreign policy to urban affairs and student organizations...