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QUIXOTE IN THE CLASSROOM The Rise and Fall of KU’s Integrated Humanities Program
Cromwell, Levi Daniel Grieser
Cromwell, Levi Daniel Grieser
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The University of Kansas in the 1970’s played host to a singular experiment in the world of higher education, the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP). The IHP promoted a unique style of learning, a study of the Great Books founded upon the “poetical mode”. Students in the program had mandatory stargazing hours, memorized poetry, and were forbidden from taking notes in class. Alongside the uniqueness of the program’s educational style was the unique fervor with which people protested it, and the IHP would last only nine years, from 1970-1979. Despite its relatively short lifespan, the IHP has left a long memory in the vibrant Classical Education and Catholic intellectual communities. Few books have been written about the IHP, and the few that have are from graduates of, or men associated with, the program. My research into the IHP interrogates the origins and development of this novel educational movement, discourses of academic independence and free inquiry, and how IHP reveals the relationship between the humanities, education, and asking questions and finding answers old and new at a time of great transformation.
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Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors
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2025-04-29
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Department of History, University of Kansas
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