1950s > Text Books
Man In Contemporary Society
By the late 1940s, CC-B's reliance on secondary sources and its ongoing focus on economic problems led to increasing student complaints of irrelevance and, worse, boredom. In 1949, the course was finally revised to make it more consistent with CC-A. Students would now read and discuss primary texts by Dewey, Weber, Durkheim and many other major 20th century social thinkers. Faculty from the anthropology and sociology departments joined the CC-B rotation, and in 1951 the staff of CC-B produced its own mimeograph primary sourcebook. Four years later, an expanded version appeared in two volumes as Man in Contemporary Society.
William de Bary and Oriental Studies Sourcebooks
In the 1950s, sinologist William Theodore de Bary, who had been a student in the first Humanities A course in 1937, pioneered Oriental Civilization, Oriental Humanities and their associated sourcebooks. Like their Western counterparts, de Bary's "area studies" courses became nationally influential. Moreover, de Bary himself would prove a key promoter and reformer of the entire Core Curriculum for the next five decades.
From left to right: Ryusaku Tsunoda, Taraknath Das, William Theodore de Bary, James Guttman, Herbert Deane
Introduction to Oriental Civilization: Sources of Japanese Tradition (1958), Sources of Indian Tradition (1958) and Sources of Chinese Tradition (1960)
Introduction to Oriental Civilization: Sources of Japanese Tradition (1958)
Introduction to Oriental Civilization: Sources of Chinese Tradition (1960)
Introduction to Oriental Civilization: Sources of Indian Tradition (1958)