COLL-E 103 The Modern University: Campus, Community and Culture (Capshew) (A&H) (3 cr.)

This course provides an introduction to changing ideas behind the university and to its rich cultural traditions. Although education and learning has remained its central purpose, the university has played distinctively varied intellectual, social, and cultural roles in different times and places in the Western world. The course explores the making of the modern university, with a focus on American developments, using a comparative and historical approach. It views the university as a human institution and cultural artifact open to explanation and interpretation. A main point of comparison is our own academic home, Indiana University, as a microcosm of the dynamic forces that have shaped the American research university.