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Boardman Professor of Fine Arts John Shearman gazed over the crowd that packed his lecture hall yesterday like a few too many sardines in a canister a little too small and sighed...
...first meeting of Shearman's Core class on Michelangelo, and students were lining the aisles, standing in the halls and sitting behind and around him on the stage. For several minutes, he stood waiting, before the crowd hushed and allowed him to speak...
Hiring scholars by area of expertise also allows the department to "reinvent the field," says Shearman...
...addition, the department is attempting to broaden its fields and offerings to attract minority students. "We are trying to overcome the rotten record art history has of attracting minorities," says Shearman. "The discipline as a whole has not convinced minorities they should take...
Fine Arts would also like to incorporate photography and American art into the department. Shearman says he is hopeful that these curriculum changes will take place despite financial difficulties facing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Harvard is not in a position where they can't reappoint or are in retrenchment," says Shearman. "They are not yet cutting academic programs...