Learning Communities and the Future of the Humanities

Authors

Phyllis E. VanSlyck, CUNY LaGuardia Community CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

According to Profession's 2005 Presidential Forum, one reason for dwindling enrollment in the Humanities is lack of interdisciplinarity. Learning communities, courses clustered around a common theme and taught to the same group of students are a powerful example of a kind of interdisciplinarity that is flourishing on more than five-hundred campuses in the United States.This essay looks closely at the expanding learning community movement and its relevance to revitalizing the Humanities.

Comments

Originally published in Profession, (2006), pp. 163-176.