Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lower-level requirements mapped out for first-years and sophomores in Gen. Ed.'s first year to offer courses, '46-'47, reflect Fox's impression. These include Humanities 1a: "Homer, The Old Testament, Plato," and Social Sciences 1a and 1b: "Introduction to the Social Inheritance of Western Civilization...
...faltering, both in the classroom and on the ideological battlefield, as the Western capitalism and civilizations which seemed invincible in 1945 were exposed as vulnerable in the jungles of Vietnam...
...Vietnam was largely conducted on the same precepts that informed Gen Ed, that West is best," Fox says. "In the wake of that period, people weren't so sure that Western culture, WASP culture was particularly useful, valid or respectable...
Kishlansky, himself the author of several textbooks, says his own textbook on Western civilization is used within Harvard's history department because professors often decide to use textbooks based on the nature of their course...
...Western civilization is the type of course where you do need a text because it is a course with a number of areas to cover," says Kishlansky. "I don't use textbooks for the kinds of courses that I teach because I don't teach survey courses...