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Research-intensive universities have long struggled to reconcile
the imperative of specialized learning with the need for a broader,
more liberal education. Combining Two Cultures provides a
comprehensive account of a degree program at a distinguished
Canadian university, McMaster, aimed at accomplishing this
synthesis. This innovative program has stood up well over more than
two decades. It has a curriculum balanced between arts and sciences
and is committed to developing broadly applicable intellectual
skills, above all those that underlie scholarly inquiry into
questions of importance to students and to the society they live
in. It attempts to harmonize the excitement of exploring a broad
range of fields with students' needs to meet the requirements for
advanced study in professional and academic graduate disciplines.
This book offers insights into the challenges of planning and
establishing a program of this kind. Brief personal reflections
from many of the program's graduates, firsthand observations from
current students, and instructors' accounts of their experiences
give a vivid sense of what the program has meant to its
participants.
Research-intensive universities have long struggled to reconcile
the imperative of specialized learning with the need for a broader,
more liberal education. Combining Two Cultures provides a
comprehensive account of a degree program at a distinguished
Canadian university, McMaster, aimed at accomplishing this
synthesis. This innovative program has stood up well over more than
two decades. It has a curriculum balanced between arts and sciences
and is committed to developing broadly applicable intellectual
skills, above all those that underlie scholarly inquiry into
questions of importance to students and to the society they live
in. It attempts to harmonize the excitement of exploring a broad
range of fields with students' needs to meet the requirements for
advanced study in professional and academic graduate disciplines.
This book offers insights into the challenges of planning and
establishing a program of this kind. Brief personal reflections
from many of the program's graduates, firsthand observations from
current students, and instructors' accounts of their experiences
give a vivid sense of what the program has meant to its
participants.
Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining
writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres,
challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as
the mores of society. "Paper Bodies" was the wonderful phrase she
used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue
to make "a great Blazing Light" after her death. There are
connections here to Cavendish's most famous work, The Description
of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a
woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In
addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish's
brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life
(1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her
Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety
of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps
to set her work in context for the modern reader.
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