TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susan R. Merrifield
PY  - 2005
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1085-0678
TI  - Readin’ + Writin’ for the Hard-Hat Crowd
T2  - Curriculum Policy at an Urban University
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100240
N2  - Readin’ + Writin’ for the Hard-Hat Crowd explores the history of an urban public university from its conception in 1964 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. The reader views this place in time through the lens of the evolving nature of «freshman English», an introductory curriculum that began as four semesters of Great Books. The author, herself among those once labeled «the hard-hat crowd», received an undergraduate education similar to that experienced by her contemporaries at elite private colleges. Yet, while this school, once considered a poor man’s Harvard, was founded with a mission to provide academic equity, the curriculum evolved to one that responded to pressure for relevancy and practicality.
KW  - practicality, academic equity, relevancy
LA  - English
ER  -