Hope, Heart, and the Humanities
How a Free College Course Is Changing Lives
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-60781-527-3 (ISBN)
Description
Hope, Heart, and the Humanities
How a Free College Course is Changing Lives Edited by Jean Cheney and L. Jackson Newell with Hikmet Sidney Loe, Jeff Metcalf, and Bridget M. Newell
Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors for hundreds of students who, for various reasons, faced barriers to attending college. This course has given them the knowledge, confidence, and power to re-chart their lives.
Readers will go inside Venture classrooms to see what occurs when adults enter serious discussions of literature, critical writing, art history, American history, and philosophy. Also apparent are the difficulties nontraditional students often encounter and the hard choices they and their teachers make. But what readers may remember most are the stories and voices of people whose views of the world have broadened and whose directions in life have change.
How a Free College Course is Changing Lives Edited by Jean Cheney and L. Jackson Newell with Hikmet Sidney Loe, Jeff Metcalf, and Bridget M. Newell
Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors for hundreds of students who, for various reasons, faced barriers to attending college. This course has given them the knowledge, confidence, and power to re-chart their lives.
Readers will go inside Venture classrooms to see what occurs when adults enter serious discussions of literature, critical writing, art history, American history, and philosophy. Also apparent are the difficulties nontraditional students often encounter and the hard choices they and their teachers make. But what readers may remember most are the stories and voices of people whose views of the world have broadened and whose directions in life have change.
Reviews / Votes
"A terrific introduction to a grass roots movement of oppressed people and educators worldwide, changing lives and communities through thinking and dialogue, more powerful than munitions. Students from all walks of life and backgrounds overcome poverty, racism, homelessness, abusive relationships, and hopelessness through their study of the humanities. Nuggets of teaching brilliance pervade the volume."-David R. Kittay, director, Harlem Clemente Course for the Humanities "An impressively informative and engaging read."-Midwest Book Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Salt Lake City
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
8 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60781-527-3 (9781607815273)
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Persons
JEAN CHENEY is associate director of Utah Humanities.
L. JACKSON NEWELL served as dean of Liberal Education at the University of Utah and president of Deep Springs College.
HIKMET SIDNEY LOE teaches art history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
JEFF METCALFis an award-winning teacher and writer in the English Department at the University of Utah.
BRIDGET M. NEWELL is professor of philosophy and associate vice-president for diversity at Bucknell University.
L. JACKSON NEWELL served as dean of Liberal Education at the University of Utah and president of Deep Springs College.
HIKMET SIDNEY LOE teaches art history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
JEFF METCALFis an award-winning teacher and writer in the English Department at the University of Utah.
BRIDGET M. NEWELL is professor of philosophy and associate vice-president for diversity at Bucknell University.