Celebrating the Humanities: a Half-century of the Search Course at Rhodes College

Publisher Marketing: A reflective account of the birth, development, and continuing evolution of the Search course at Rhodes College, a plan of study that raises wider questions on the purpose of higher education itself. Contributor Bio:  Nelson, Michael Nelson is a professor of Political Science at Rhodes College. Contributor Bio:  Elshtain, Jean Bethke Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of several books, including Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought and Augustine and the Limits of Politics.