Word: sekler
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...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts offers very little novelty in its program--only two unprecedented new courses. Yet, in its concept, it is revolutionary and may well be revolutionary in its effect. According to its coordinator of studies, Ed-hard F. Sekler, the center is intended to overcome "visual illiteracy" at Harvard, to make "visual experience, visual exploration, and visual creation there in education a relevant place with verbal experience, investigation, and creation...
...core course will be the already existing Arch. Sci. 124, a half course on design in the visual arts which includes study of design theory, some study of the cognitive process as it applies to vision, and development of students' aesthetic sensitivity. Taught by Sekler, and guest lecturers, it may be supplemented next year by a complementary half course, Arch...
Others are Billy Jim Layton, assistant professor of Music, Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry; Edward F. Sekler, associate professor of Architecture; James B. Thompson, Jr., professor of Mineralogy; George Wald, professor of Biology and Robert Lee Wolff '36, professor of History...
Instead of a final exam, Sekler said yesterday, students will be graded on the basis of actual work taking still pictures or producing motion picture documentaries...
...Sekler said that the courses will not have any prerequisites for admission, but will be limited in enrollment because of the lack of teaching facilities...