
Curricular Review: Redefining a World-Class Education		39:41
History, Structure, and Content of American Academic Culture
	Introduction: American Academic Culture	7:13
	The Shaping of the American Curriculum	6:57
	Building an American Academic Culture	8:57
	Theories on the Contemporary Curriculum	6:41
	Conclusion: The Challenges of General Education	3:46
	Audience Question & Answer	8:05

	Building an American Academic Culture
	Professor Bender states the 1980s brought forth the question of inclusion of new subject matter and inclusion of the new demographics of academics. Peoples without histories, minorities, and women included in objects of inquiry, now became the inquirers as well. Some disciplines moved in these directions faster than others. <br> <br> The question of inclusion came in part from outside of the academy, and its way was prepared by a major shift in the content of the humanities and social sciences. In 1946, very little of the curriculum was focused on the United States, but rather European culture was embraced. The 1960s saw the Americanization of the curriculum and it has continued to grow. Even though this was the era of the arrival of French theory, at the same time, American scholarship was reaching beyond the Euro-American core. One of the great developments since World War Two has been the development of area studies.<br> <br>

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