Programs in American Civilization
D URING the winter of I952-53, preparatory to the organization of an undergraduate program in American Civilization at the University of Kansas, the writer made a study of American Civilization programs elsewhere. A grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education made possible visits varying in length from a day to several weeks to study representative programs at thirteen institutions in the Northeast and Middle West, including large and small, public and private, rural and urban, men's, women's, and coeducational institutions. Catalogues of other colleges were studied, and correspondence followed when a visit was impossible.' The present notes are based on this survey. They represent an attempt, not to describe fully current thought and practice in the field, a task already performed by Tremaine