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Today’s class has been a success in Lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Paul Stopforth’s estimation. “Beautiful weather,” he recaps. “Extraordinary color...
...Stopforth were teaching a Justice section or giving a Biochemistry lecture, these elements might not matter. But his course, VES 113, “Altered Landscapes” is one of Harvard’s few classes to be taught mostly outdoors. Each week, the class boards a shuttle to the Forest Hills Cemetery, where they have obtained permission to create landscape-based artworks. As Stopforth puts it, “We experience the environment moment to moment, for the pure physical pleasure of being...
...swords and paintbrushes, raising their easels as shields, crossing my name off the Signet’s punch book, and preparing to storm the Crimson offices or my room to defend their concentration to the death. But hear me out. It’s not that I think that VES offers no interesting or even no important classes. It’s simply that the idea of VES as a concentration, a major at Harvard University on par with astrophysics, engineering, English, or biochemical sciences, is baffling. Let me explain why.To become a VES concentrator, your requirements are essentially...
...alternative rock,” their life. “The band is my career,” says Carbone. “My major is a tricky story. I’m stuck in economics after long fights with my parents, but I’m switching to VES and will do an extra year.” But whether it leads him to rags or riches, Carbone’s passions are fixed; as he tells the Crimson, “I’m in it for the music if it leaves me poor and homeless. There?...
...their fashion education. The fact that the general Harvard fashion scene is radically different from their own personal style has not been lost on any of these amateur designers. Wood thinks that a great way to encourage students to create their own designs would be through a class. Already, VES 123r, “Post-Brush,” allows students to create their own designs using silk screening techniques. Wood recommends creating a class focused solely on textile design. “A lot of people are interested in fashion, but they don’t know...