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...concentrators took course after course at the VAC and added them to their Arch Sci credits. Up until now that was the closest you could come to majoring in Vis Stud. The Fine Arts Department would often give credit for VAC courses, but Arch Sci even taught the nitty gritty of its own basic requirements, Arch Sci 20-21, and 30-31, at the Carpenter Center...
...vac idea is that you learn how to look at things, how to create things, and how to interpret things in the visual environment. For example, last fall's final exam in arch sci (next year called vis stud) 125 was a slide show of material studied in the course and only some of which were pertinent to the test questions...
...also seems extraordinary that so many positions on the VAC Faculty are held by Europeans. If there is a compensating reason for this unusual balance (American design schools are not very good?) that reason isn't evident to the student. To him, it seems possible that importing instructors Europe might be another way of lending legitimacy to the department. But part of this might be due to the lingering influence of Walter Gropius, former dean of the Design School, and the Bauhaus school of thought...
Rudolf Arnheim, who will join the Faculty from Columbia University, next fall, will teach Visual Studies 100, the other new general introductory course for the field. Called "An Introduction to a Psychology of Visual Studies," it will be the first year-long survey course the VAC has ever offered. Arnheim is the author of Art and Visual Perception...
Sekler, who has held his VAC post since 1963, was born in Vienna, studied at the Warburg Institute of London University, and received his Ph. D. in 1948. He received an honorary M.A. from Harvard...