Contents

• Foreword / Martha C. Nussbaum
• Preface : from rhetoric to reality / Michael Nelson
• Alive at the core : programs and issues / Michael Nelson
• The humanities in the core curriculum at Columbia College / James V. Mirollo
• Freedom and wholeness at St. John’s College / Mera J. Flaumenhaft
• The search course at Rhodes College / Michael Nelson
• The core curriculum at Eckerd College / Lloyd W. Chapin
• The humanities program at Davidson College / Brian J. Shaw
• The experimental college program at Berkeley / Katherine Trow
• The heritage program at Millsaps College / W. Charles Sallis
• The humanities program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville / Margaret J. Downes
• The foundation year programme at King’s College / Margaret Heller
• The intellectual heritage program at Temple University / Stephen Zelnick
• Tradition and criticism in western culture at the University of the South / W. Brown Patterson
• Western intellectual traditions at Hendrix College / John Churchill
• The area one program at Stanford University / Harry J. Elam, Jr., Cheri Ross