Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curriculum is Columbia's "intellectual cost of arms," according to the university's course catalogue. It is meant to provide students with "the lively inheritance of Western literature, philosophy, history, music...
...Columbia University, every student is required to take an unabashedly Western core curriculum, so such arguments can involve the entire college community...
...most vocal proponents of thecustomary Western curriculum is department ChairThomas N. Bisson, Lea Professor of MedievalHistory...
...Western societies have latched on torationality, which is Western in origin," Bissonsays. "But the great Eastern societies areterribly important for knowledge of religion andphilosophy...
...living in a Western world. Much of ourlife is influenced by Western history, just ascitizens and members of a culture," says HigginsonProfessor of History and of East Asian Languagesand Civilization Philip A. Kuhn...