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...NATIONHarvard Film Studies concentrators join a growing number of students casting a critical eye towards one of the century’s most popular media forms. Last year, two seniors graduated in the subject from Harvard; in 2006, 12 seniors will graduate with a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) degree in film studies. With over 635 students currently enrolled in film classes, the subject’s popularity speaks for itself and, moreover, hints at a national and international trend sweeping the university circuit: recognition of the cultural, historical, and academic importance of film. The Film Studies at Harvard program...
Believe it or not, Environmental Studies just might save your life. John Stilgoe, the Robert and Lois Orchard professor in the History of Landscape, and professor of Environmental Studies in the VES department, relates a little-publicized Sept. 11, 2001 survival story: “Several of my former students who are now working in New York City contacted me after 9-11 and thanked me for saving their lives. I give a lecture each year in which I describe what happens in a major city after a natural disaster. My students who were in New York on that terrible...
...Crimson decodes the mysteries of VES: Environmental Studies? Film Studies? An English professor as chair? The answers are within...
...Easy Riding for Film Studies Concentrators The Nature of Environmental Studies Department Head Garber Discusses the Future of VES...
Beneath the floorboards of Sever Hall, Robb Moss, lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and independent filmmaker, leads me into VES 50, “Fundamentals of Filmmaking,” and gallantly pulls out a chair. “This is the Crimson reporter I told you about,” he announces to the eight students chattering around a table. Then, turning to me: “Why don’t you tell us a little about yourself?”Wow. Nobody has ever done that in my four years of high school and almost...