Word: academicization
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Without doubt, extracurricular ventures into the visual and performance arts should also be endorsed and encouraged on campus. But students who want to study and explore artistic disciplines and who find tremendous satisfaction in drama, music or painting should have the opportunity to do so--without anyone questioning their academic...
Unfortunately, Harvard tells a drastically different story. Each semester hundreds of students are turned away from Visual and Environmental Science (VES) classes not necessarily because of the courses' competitive nature, but more accurately because of the lack of resources allotted to the department. More devastating than the University's maldistribution...
In 1955 Harvard released the Brown Report, an investigation commissioned by President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to determine whether art was an "appropriate" academic pursuit. The study resoundingly endorsed the visual arts as a novel learning method and way to develop students' analytical skills. Although this triggered the impetus for...
The arts have been incorporated into other academic disciplines as well. Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, for example, infuses the visual arts into his History 1661: "Social Thought in Modern America" lectures.
The explosion of interest isn't limited to Harvard, says John W. Hutchinson, associate dean of academic programs in DEAS.