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...planned Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) video project on masturbation has aroused a combination of interest and ire after the directors solicited participants over House lists last week...
...project is one of several small final projects that the students are working on in VES 51a, “Fundamentals of Video: Introductory Course...
Film studies may finally earn feature status next fall as plans are being considered by the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department to create an undergraduate track for the study of film within its concentration. Currently, students studying cinema take classes across various departments without a formalized focus. Now, meetings are being held by an 11-member committee from VES to review this new proposal, which, if approved, will face the Educational Policy Committee, the Faculty Council and a full vote of the Faculty before being officially established. It behooves the Harvard bureaucracy to accept this proposal; a VES track...
...1970s, when other colleges instituted similar programs, but it has only recently made significant headway. The arrival this fall of Assistant Professor J.D. Connor ’92 and his two film theory courses, English 164, “Literature and Visuality in America” and VES 195, “Contemporary Hollywood Cinema” strengthen the case for a concentration track. Since 2000, students have been able to obtain a brochure that lists the numerous film courses—spread across various departments—offered at Harvard. The sheer number and diversity of courses that...
...film. Currently, many films are only offered in a format—35 milimeter for example—that can only be played on-site with the proper, expensive equipment. Copies of films in formats such as VHS and DVD would allow students more viewing freedom. A track within VES would help highlight that films are not just diversions for students when they are not poring over Joyce and Pinsky but are objects of study themselves...