Introduction. The disputed origins
Section 1. Debates in antiquity
Section 2. Late antiquity and middle ages : Christian appropriation, codification, and female imagery
Section 3. In the modernus university, 1100s-1500
Section 4. The humanist and collegiate traditions, 1350-1600
Section 5. Humanist, scholastic, and sectarian strains in the colonial college
Section 6. Intellectual and social challenges to the college, 1790s-1850s
Section 7. Struggle between the university and the college, 1860s-1900s
Section 8. Experimentation and search for coherence, 1910s-1930s
Section 9. The "Emerging Curricular Blueprint" of the mid-twentieth century
Section 10. Approaching the past in the new millennium.