Links Checked 3/14/18
In the upper half of the chart below you will find curricular types found in American colleges and university prior to the 1920's. They are charted against some common curricular rationale elements. The specifics of those elements are given in the corresponding blocks.
Using information from Grant and Riesman's The
Perpetual Dream fill in the blocks for later 20th century
curricular types
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tuition
donations |
religious | Greek, Latin, humanitiies | Basic Depravity | Open, low concern | Elite | Elite or Ministry | high, high |
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tuition
donations EC |
{applied}
scientific |
Scientific | Progress thru Research | Industry | Non-elite | Industry | low, high |
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tuition
donations (EC) |
cultural | Humanities | Enlightenment thru knowledge | Elite | Elite | Elite | high, high |
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tuition
donations EC |
practical | applied scientificl | Progress thru knowledge | Aspirant, general | Non-elite | Professions | low, high |
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tuition
donations EC |
applied scientific, service | applied scientific | Progress thru knowledge | Aspirant, general | Non-elite | Non-elite | mod, mod |
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