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Show This Week Courses By Newspaper Begins Second 18-Week Series The Times-Independent will offer readers Courses by Newspaper's "American Issues Iss-ues Forum" Bicentennial series ser-ies weekly beginning on 'this week. Editor Sam Taylor, announced today. The course, which features 18 timely articles focuses on the activities that have shaped the nation's values and the national character. Courses by Newspaper in 1976 is part of The Times-Independent's observance ob-servance of the nation's Bicentennial, Taylor said. Daniel Aaron, Victor Thomas Thom-as professor of English and American Language and Literature Liter-ature at Harvard University coordinated the American Issues Forum series which features Allen Weinstein, professor pro-fessor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Smith College; Robert Heilbroner, Norman, Thomas professor of Economics Econom-ics at the New School for Social Research; Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-winning economist econom-ist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who writes a column for Newsweek Magazine; Walter LaFeber, Cornell University professor of historv; and, Neil Harris, professor of history at the University of Chicago. Readers wishing to study the course topics in depth may enroll at the Southeast Center for Continuing Education, at 45 E. Center, Moab for college credit. An American Issues Forum Reader and Study Guide are also available for student use or for the reader who seeks further information on the topics of the newspaper articles. Courses by Newspaper was developed in 1973 by the University of California Extension, Ex-tension, San Diego, and is funded by the National Endowment En-dowment for the Humanities. The upcoming American Issues Iss-ues Forum course is the fourth in a continuing series of timely education programs offered by Courses by Newspaper. Courses by Newspaper es timates that more than 20 million Americans have read articles offered through the first three courses as part of a personal, convenient, at-home learning program. Course articles in 1976 are linked to the American Issues Forum, a national Bicentennial program sponsored by the National Endowment at the suggestion of television journalist journ-alist Walter Cronkite. Community Comm-unity groups throughout the U.S. are using Forum topics as a basis for discussion groups, film series, lectures and community events. Senior citizens, civic, cultural, cul-tural, religious and youth organizations are invited to form their own informal discussion groups based on the American Issues Forum articles appearing weekly in the Times-Independent. Groups wishing further information in-formation on the Forum should contact Dr. H. K. Hancock at SUCCE. |
