1. A curriculum is influenced by many factors. One major factor is the students who will study the curriculum. Discuss the changes and developments in the American undergraduate curriculum starting with the colonial period to the mid-20th century. Indicate the relationship among the changing student body, the development of new types of institutions, and the curricular changes. reading assignment: Readings: TOPIC: THE EDUCATION OF MINORITIES Ashe Reader: Wright, B., For the children of the infidels? American Indian education in the  colonial colleges, pp 104-111. Anderson, J., Training the apostles of liberal culture: Black higher education, 1900-1935, pp474-499. Wagoner, J., The American compromise: Charles W. Eliot, black education and the New South pp500-512  Gasman, M. W.E. DuBois, & Johnson: Differing Views on the Role of Philanthropy  in Higher Education pp513-528 CHAPTER 10 DIVERSITY pp 661-722