Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed out that even small, restricted offerings such as Nat Sci 1 mean a few more openings in the Gen Ed program, and every opening means a new opportunity for someone. Small size may eventually prove an advantage, if professors who fear riding a tiger the size of Hum 2 can be encouraged to launch limited, less time-consuming Gen Ed courses within the Houses...
Even if courses like Hum 105 or the Visual Studies courses offered at the Carpenter Center were only technical training, in the narrowest sense, this argument would have at best shaky validity. The process is as important as the plan in any of the arts, even if the concern is only with analysis. A practical knowledge of metre and rhyme is essential to adept poetic analysis, as is knowledge of brushstrokes to the criticism of painting or a knowledge of staging to dramatic criticism...
More important, courses can certainly be designed which eliminate the danger of parochialism by putting the technical aspects of art in their larger context. Hum 105, as a Gen Ed course if it fulfills its promise, would seem to be the archetype of this new genre. The Committee on General Education has both the flexibility and the philosophical rationale to take such courses--those featuring academic and practical analysis--under its newly strengthened wing. The "new breed" of Gen Ed courses should highlight a few more confrontations with real, live...
Such courses should, of course, not drain activity away from the current extra-curricular efforts. In the particular case of Hum 105, faculty direction should not push student directors off-stage. Faculty members should only direct one play each term on the Loeb Mainstage, whether or not that play is part of a course. The bulk of directorial work should be carried, as it now is, by students...
Approval of Hum 105, the Visual Studies program, and the English Department's writing courses are all symptoms of a rather beneficial disease the Faculty is succumbing to--creeping tolerance. Academic appreciation for the procedures as well as the products of art will continue as long as the Faculty realizes that while mechanics occasionally drip grease on the liberal arts limousine, they also make...