Celebrating the humanities : a half-century of the search course at Rhodes College
by Michael Nelson
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During the past fifty years, most students at Rhodes College (formerly Southwestern at Memphis) have taken what has come to be known as the Search course: a two-year, twelve-hour interdisciplinary study of the ideas, beliefs, and historical developments that have shaped Western civilization over the past 5,000 years. The course grew out of developments in the humanities in the 1940s and has continued to address feminism, postmodernism, educational technology, and other new developments in show more that intellectually vibrant field ever since. Celebrating the Humanities is an attempt by the Search faculty from political science, religious studies, classics, history, philosophy, French, Spanish, and other disciplines to tell the story of how the course was created and how it has developed over half a century. Its authors address such thorny issues as the continuing debate over the canon, the teaching of "values," change versus the status quo in curriculum reform, issues of gender and cultural inclusiveness, faculty recruitment and the faculty reward structure, and the willingness to examine critically what we read, think, and do. show lessMember Reviews
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Michael Nelson teaches courses on U.S. politics, the presidency, and the Constitutional Convention at Rhodes College. In addition, he participates in the college's humanities course: The Search for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion. Before coming to Rhodes in 1991, he taught at Vanderbilt University for thirteen years and was show more editor of Washington Monthly. His most recent books are Debating the Presidency, 2nd ed. (with Richard J. Ellis); The Elections of 2008; The Evolving Presidency, 3rd ed.; The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007, 5th ed. (with Sidney M. Milkis); Governing Gambling: Politics and Policy in State, Tribe, and Nation (with John Lyman Mason); and Celebrating the Humanities: A Half Century of the Search Course at Rhodes College. show less
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