“Supporting the arts is something that we need to do more of at Harvey Mudd College
so that our students understand the place of creativity in day-to-day life.”
JEFF GROVES, professor of literature
“Students come to understand that our department and Videos created by Mudd students are screened every year
this college do not consider the arts just a fun break from their during Alumni Weekend and serve as a window to the changing
other curricular commitments but as a fundamental part of a culture of Mudd.
broad liberal arts education,” said Alves. Darryl Yong ’96 has witnessed the changing culture first-
The department faculty see creativity as central to the hand. An HMC mathematics graduate and music major
development of an educated person. (Scripps) and now associate professor of mathematics, he
Groves, professor of literature, whose teaching includes believes that adding “and the arts” to the department name
courses on architecture and hand-press printing, said, “Of is very appropriate. “Now as a faculty member who believes
course, creativity is present in all disciplines, but it is the spe- wholeheartedly in the mission statement of the college, I see
cial province of the arts to make visible that quality of mind. the humanities (social sciences and arts) program as central to
Supporting the arts, then, is something that we need to do that mission,” he said.
more of at Harvey Mudd College so that our students under-
stand the place of creativity in day-to-day life.
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with Dan Petersen, emeritus professor of physics. “After 10
weeks of traipsing about greater Los Angeles looking at amaz-
ing architecture, they then turn their creativity toward their
home campus and sketch out a building design. Many of these
designs have had real aesthetic merit; it doesn’t take much to
unleash that side of our students.”














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Students perform and exhibit their work in a variety of
contexts: the annual Shakespeare play, the media show in
April, photography exhibits in the department and concerts
by different music ensembles at the colleges. Many arts
courses are designed specifically with Mudd students in
mind, such as Alves’ Introduction to Computer Music,
and Harmony of Sound and Light, and Mayeri’s Digital
Media class.
Media production continues to be a big part of the
arts at HMC. Mayeri, who has created videos to inves-
tigate stem cell research and primatology, said, “The
moving image can help to visualize scientific concepts.
It’s also increasingly a part of our social world. Digital
video can now be found everywhere—from phones to
YouTube to Facebook.”
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