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...12th article “Af-Am 10 Enrollment Plummets After Spike,” focuses solely on Prof. Cornel West’s departure as the major reason for the decline in class enrollment. While Professor West was certainly an engaging and popular figure that drew a number of students to class through his reputation and rhetorical ability, the issue of Af-Am 10 losing its placement as a Core requirement cannot be ignored. Harvard showed tremendous support to the mission of the department and African and African-American Studies in general by placing it within the core...
DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., chair of the Af-Am department and no stranger to public intellectualism, tapped Mitchell in his effort to rebuild the department after several high-profile departures. After meeting the film critic at a dinner in London and bringing him to Harvard for lectures last year, Gates declares himself an unqualified...
...Af-Am 10’s students and the two professors team-teaching the course, Professor of Government Michael C. Dawson and Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelyn Hammonds, are now accommodated comfortably in a lecture room in Sever Hall...
...Af-Am 10 is a required class for students who wish to concentrate in African and African American Studies and is a pre-requisite for several departmental classes...
...Gentry ’07, who said he will likely concentrate in Af-Am, added that the professors were including plenty of room for question-and-answer sessions...