Macalester College (St. Paul, MN 55105-1899)
Jeremiah Reedy (Project Director: August 1977 to October 1990)
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Pilot Grants - Education
Education Programs
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Totals:
$50,000 (approved)
$50,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/8/1978 – 12/31/1979
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Pilot Grant Program "The Life of the Min d"
Macalester College will implement a plan for a cluster of Freshman Seminars (5-7 to be continued yearly) designed (l) to train students to "read " in the humanities, i.e., to interpret and assess a poem, a painting, a building, a symphony, a philosophical treatise or any artifact of human creation; (2) to acquaint students with the claims made and questions raised by the humanities; and, (3) to make them aware of the nature and range of humanistic courses in the Macalester curriculum.
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