The Art History Newsletter

How To Teach?

by Jon Lackman | 1 March 2006 | Conferences, Teaching

A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article described the “moving away from just lecturing with slides … to incorporating elements like studio work, small-group projects, and online discussion and review of images.” At CAA, Robert Bersson “recalled his own time as a 20th-century student in art-history courses at Brandeis University. He displayed the elaborate doodles on his notebooks and the list, in the margin of one page, of 16 women he wanted to date.”