A newsletter of the project I
Integrating The Scholarship On Women:
Transforming The Curriculum Towson State University - ~ ~:~J ~~ -
INTEGRATING~~~~~ RE-VISIONS THE SCHOLARSHIP ON WOMEN
TRANSFOR.MING ll-iE CURRICULLM
Number 2.SPRING 1984
TO THE READER a second tear-off sheet We urge you
to fill it out and mail it if you overlooked
doing so with the first issue.
Since our funding is limited, we cannot
continued to send the next two
years' issues of RE-VISIONS to our full
original mailing list If we do not hear
from you, therefore, you may not
receive future issues.
This second issue of RE-VISIONS ence, to be held at the end of the
contains reports on the second three years of the project, in Spring,
semester of activities of the FIPSE 1986. The Area Conference will desupported
project, "Integrating the scribe the results of the project and
Scholarship on Women: Transform- explore ways of implementing it at
ing the Curriculum." Highlighted are other schools and colleges.
the January conference for Towson We are delighted with the response
faculty, which officially introduced the to the first issue of RE-VISIONS. Many
campus to the project, and the activ- of you returned the tear-off sheet,
ities of the second tier of faculty indicating your interest in receiving
workshops, which began in February. subsequent issues. However, we
The heart of the curriculum integra- would like to hear from more of you,
tion project is a set of 11 workshops, as we prepare a list of people to be
in which 7 5 faculty at Towson in se- invited to the Area Conference. We
lected disciplines are studying the are, therefore, including in this issue
Meanwhile, we continue to welcome
inquiries about the project, and will
be happy to send additional information
to you. Please write or phone:
Project Directors: Elaine Hedges,
.321-2860; Sara Coulter, .321-2859;
Grant Office Secretary, Emily Daugherty,
.321-2660.
new scholarship on women, assessing
its meaning for their courses, and
creating new course syllabi to include
it Six workshops began in September,
198.3: in American History,Arnerican
Literature, British Literature, Art,
Composition, and Business and Professional
Writing. Five more began
this February: in Psychology, Sociology,
Education, Biology, and Business.
Under the terms of the FIPSE
grant, these workshops are open only
toa limited numberoffacultyatTowson,
who have agreed to pursue a
systematic course ofreading and syllabi
revision for three semesters, and
to teach their revised syllabi for two
subsequent semesters. In reporting
on the progress of grant activities,
including the workshops, RE-VISIONS
hopes to provide its readers with
ideas, suggestions, and bibliography
they may find useful at their own
schools. We also want to compile a
mailing list of faculty and administrators
in the Baltimore-Washington
area who, having followed the project
through RE-VISIONS, will be interested
in attending the Area Confer-
JANUARY
CONFERENCE
"The New Scholarship on Women: ing Colleges in Washington, D.C. As
Impact on the Curriculum," was the Professor Minnich explained, the
subject of a conference attended by humanities study "what it is to be
Towson State University faculty on human." "Human," however, is freJanuary
19, 1984. The conference, quently identified with the values of
funded by the Faculty Development the group that has traditionally deCommittee
of Towson State Univer- fined "the humanities" over the censity,
was a major activity of the integra- turies. This group - mostly white,
tion project this year. The conference usually privileged males - reprefeatured
four guest speakers. Three sents only a very small percentage of
of these discussed the implications humankind. Yet the prevalence of
of the new scholarship on women for their values and points of view has
broad areas of the curriculum - the operated to "define out" of the
arts and humanities, the social sci- humanities the experiences of other
ences, and the life sciences. The groups, including women.
fourth speaker addressed the issue Professor Minnich questioned speof
women as students. cific value systems that prevail in the
Issues in the humanities that fem- humanities. Why is signed art proinists
have raised were explored by duced by a single individual taken
Elizabeth Minnich, Professor of Phil- more seriously than unsigned art
osophy at the Union of Experiment- that is collectively produced? Why is
