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Designing courses around a chronological framework is not necessarily the solution, however, since some courses’ strengths are their emphasis on more specific elements of art and architecture, Zerner said.
The solution he has chosen is to base the course on the long-discontinued course Fine Arts 13, Introduction to the History of Art. As a very general one-year-long survey course covering the history of art and architecture from pre-history to the present, Fine Arts
Although the course is no longer offered, the department still lists it as a concentration requirement—an oversight that Deanna Dalrymple, History of Art and Architecture Department Administrator, says will be “clarified in revisions in the spring.”
Zerner said he hopes to incorporate into the course the strengths of Fine Arts 13 while simultaneously revamping its structure and style. The new course will cover only Western art instead of Western art and architecture and will draw largely on paintings from a much narrower window of history.
The new course taught by Zerner is the only change currently decided upon by the History of Art and Architecture department, but more changes are in the works according to Dalrymple, the department administrator. The department is considering revising concentration requirements and course guidelines to broaden introductory choices, she said...