He said he wasn't surprised, and that she had watched the videos so often that he could probably pass my class just by being in the same room with her while she watched. I told him he could do that by just registering and doing the homework. Ron Roberson has an M.F.A from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a B.A. from Morgan State College. He also studied art history at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium under a Fulbright Fellowship. I increased the number of class meetings from two or three to seven or eight, and I moved all of the testing for the courses out of the class meeting schedule so those periods could be used for discussion.
Students take their tests at the college testing center at their convenience.
In addition, I added the requirement of a critical museum review paper for both courses. I have developed a digital database of images covering the entire span of both art history courses so that I could be prepared for any direction that our discussions might take. Instead of a slide carousel, I go into each class meeting with a computer, a computer image projector, and 3 ZIP disks containing over 1500 images organized into easily sorted visual databases. In addition, I have developed custom digital presentations for both courses that fill in gaps in the course materials. While I am not currently teaching the class on-line, the conversion to digital media will greatly simplify the process of doing so.