By inviting professors from various departments to give lectures, IPHS also provides a forum for introducing students to a broad range of the Kenyon faculty. In addition, students have the opportunity to combine art and music with written text through multimedia computing. IPHS promotes a sense of community in which intellectual differences are respected and intellectual ties and relations are forged. Along with faculty members, students play an integral part in shaping this community, in helping to direct its future, and in governing its practices. Students enter the IPHS Concentration in their first year.
Enrollment is limited.
Baumann, Brint, Evans, Scully The central focus of this course is on the encounter between art and authority. In the first semester, we explore the connections between politics and the arts, integrating philosophy, music, literature, architecture, and film. In the second semester, we continue the general theme of art and authority by first addressing art, science, and technology. Weaving together general principles of biology and physics with the social issues of technology, we investigate the role of art in an age increasingly dominated by science. In confronting these questions, we draw upon such diverse authors as Darwin and Eliot, Heisenberg and Pynchon.