Professor’s Class Trains Students in “The Art of Beholding”
November 24, 2014
By Madeline Ruoff ’18
Art Professor Joel Upton
Among the hundreds of unusual offerings that fill the Amherst course catalog — classes that focus on food, on monsters, on murder — Professor of Art and the History of Art Joel Upton’s seminar “The Art of Beholding” stands out. In this class, students are not swamped in readings or essays or problem sets; in fact, the course syllabus is not even a full page.