'Why the West Rules - For Now', by History and
Classics
Professor, Ian Morris, is named one of this year's ten best
reads by
the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Russell Berman, professor of German and of comparative literature
and
first vice president of the Modern Language Association of America,
comments on the latest MLA's survey of undergraduate study
of
foreign languages.
The Economist's Books of the Year include Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future, by Ian Morris, professor of history and of classics.
Alexander Huang, a current PhD student of Comparative Literature,
was
awarded the MLA's Scalione Prize. He will receive the award
at the
association's annual convention in Los Angeles on 7 January
2011. It
will be presented by the MLA's...
Assessing Stanford's Structured Liberal Education (SLE)
December 1, 2010
In an Op-Ed for The Daily, freshman Kristian Bailey talks about
how
Stanford"s Structured Liberal Education program has helped
him
examine the "big questions" like "what is
justice and
what does it mean to be just?"