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In the latest in a series of articles on experimental courses at Kent State University, the authors study how students perceive such classes in terms of a liberal arts cultural education versus a values oriented education. The results determine that subject matter interest was the prime motivation for students to enroll in experimental classes. The results also suggest an openness and variety of student interest that seems unaware of a liberal arts core of “the best that has been thought.”
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Hassler, D.M., Kaplan, H.E. Experimental university classes and “the best that has been thought”. Alternative Higher Education 5, 126–134 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01079663
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