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11780
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This article contains information on the newly opened, September 18, National Humanities Center, which is located at the Research Triangle Park.
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26214
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Master of Fine Arts candidate Jennifer Schneider translates designers’ ideas into workable theatrical costumes. The costumes are built to accommodate time period differences and meet the demands of the contemporary stage.
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26215
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Andrea Bolland, a doctoral student of art, is studying an early European Renaissance artist named Andrea Mantegna. Bolland sheds new light on the fusion Mantegna provides between the classical stylists of central Italian artists and the more ornate tendancies of those in northern Italy.
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26250
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Nancy King, professor of social medicine, believes art should be a means for raising important social issues. She is working with North Carolina theater professionals to design a program which incorporates the humanities and medicine.
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31317
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Through the Humanities Extension Program, top North Carolina State University professors have taught literature, history, political and social issues to more than ten-thousand participants. The program creates new partnerships and builds on existing relationships between the college and communities across the state. The program consists of four-week seminar sessions, and is a cooperative effort with the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.
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32342
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The Center for the Study of Human Values at Tanglewood, near Winston-Salem, is developing humanities programs in cooperation with the Institute for Humanistic Studies in Aspen, Colorado. The center’s programs focus on philosophy, social values, and the nature of man and society.
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35913
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This public high school had established an illustrious alumnus in its two decades, including Nobel Prize winners, a secretary of defense. This could be explained in the collegiate atmosphere and coursework offered to the one in six New York residents accepted every year.
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36045
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Greek and Latin, part of classic curriculum, was a source of dread for many students of yesteryear. Therefore, news that Greek and Latin for Vocabulary Building was a popular course for ECU students may seem surprising. An explanation was the appeal of vocabulary words perhaps regarded as profane. Evidence not surprising, but perhaps not considered during course registration, was their role in the development of later born languages like English.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 2006,
p36-37
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