Women outnumber men majoring in Fine Arts, but most of the few job offers mailed to Fogg Museum are for men.

Fine Arts is a small field here, with vast facilities, and is a sort of happy hunting ground for every interest. Although concentrators are required to take six full courses for an A.B. degree, two of those may be taken in related fields. The choice is wide, since most Social Science or Humanities courses are open.

Fine Arts 13

The only usually required course is Fine Arts 13, a history of art, scheduled for reorganization next year due to the retirement of Professor Kuhler. Fine Arts 14, adopted on an experimental basis last year becomes a permanent fixture next fall. It was run last year by Professor Bobber, who jumped into the Fine Arts lime light only a year after arriving at Harvard with this popular survey of painting and sculpture conducted through Boston galleries and museums.

Fine Arts 170a and 170b, half courses on Modern Art, will join into a full course next September, under Professor Decknatel. In Fine Arts 16, the Theory and Practice of Drawing and Painting, Professor Lux Feininger, renowned painter, replaces Professor Bloom, who leaves the college this spring.

Other courses remain substantially the same, ranging from early Greek sculpture, studies in Chinese art in 1000 B.C., to problems of modern design.

Faculty Turnover

Fine Arts faculty turnover is speeding up, and younger men are entering the Department, with new ideas and changing concepts of art. Now age and experience of instructors are in good balance. Here, the faculty has no set pattern for instructors, who teach as they interpret.

Most work on the theory that appreciation and analysis can be best learned by doing, and emphasize small classes and frequent trips to Boston museums and galleries. As one professor put it, "we build our courses around great things made by people of every age."

Honors candidates get two and one half years of tutorial, which for some, is the basis of much of their work.

The Department is expanding rapidly, attracting students from social sciences, humanities, and even natural sciences. While only 35 received a degree in 1951, 70 graduated a year later, and last spring 80 students left the department. Many come to Fine Arts after concentrating in other fields for as many as two years.

Geology

Number of Concentrators: 61.

1952 Commencement Honors: cum, 6; magna, 1; summa, 0.

Geology, with rock scratching and field trips substituted for thesis and tutorial, is the field for the esoteric student, whether scientist, mountain climber, or just someone who wants to get away from it all.