Reports & News

Reports for this issue, including The Society for Hindu-Christian Studies, A University Department for Interreligious Relations, and In Memoriam: Ignatius Hirudayam, S.J., as well as a listing of other recent articles of interest

Print Media vs. Digital Manifest Destiny

Every communications medium reflects and reinforces intellectual habits and content patterns unique to the medium. A digital/internet hegemony is a paradoxical foreclosure on breadth of mind since digital formats do not reflect or reinforce the intellectual habits and content patterns unique to other media, especially books. A credible educational process w ill take appropriate advantage of digital media without allowing its influence to repress breadth of mind

Use of Computer Technology in Drawing and Fine Arts Classes

This article describes the methods and experience of modern, didactic use of computer technology in drawing and fine arts classes, the content of which can be explained more easily to young students

Un-Apologizing For Context and Experience In Legal Education

This Essay accompanies the Fifth Annual Symposium at Creighton University School of Law addressing the rapidly changing legal profession and our not-so-rapidly changing legal education and law school pedagogy. The Symposium\u27s focus on the changing practice of law provides an opportunity to reconsider the woefully incomplete effort by law schools to respond to the challenge of the Carnegie Report and its many preceding critics. Rather than merely pile on, however, this Essay suggests that Jesuit law schools in particular might have something to offer their colleagues-an experiential teaching style grounded in centuries old pedagogy inspired by the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola

A bicentennial agenda for America

A commencement address is presented. Topics reviewed include politics, technological developments in science as a whole, and the effects of science on human progress. The social ramifications of satellite technology are also reviewed

IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 4, Issue 1, Winter 2015

Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning is a peer-reviewed, biannual online journal that publishes scholarly and creative non-fiction essays about the theory, practice and assessment of interdisciplinary education. Impact is produced by the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning at the College of General Studies, Boston University (www.bu.edu/cgs/citl)