Word: afro-am
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...women's studies at the University. Harvard is now beginning to consider a women's studies concentration, after years of arguing its uselessness, but the process is a slow one and sure to be derailed in the long run by administrative neglect--for precedent, consider the story of the Afro-Am Department...
...their departments are given less consideration than larger ones when the university appropriates resources. While "the fact that [Sanskrit is] a small program does make it more difficult to get funding," Tubb says, "the administration has been attentive to the description of our needs that we've given them." Afro-Am's Hyatt agrees that funding is plentiful for his department...
...There are times you feel that there isn't that much choice in course selection. That's annoying," says Afro-Am concentrator Rogers. "There are some topics I'm interested in that there are no courses in," says Linguistics concentrator Case, but she adds that this is not a serious problem since "there are more courses in the department than I have time to take...
Professors say they cannot offer a range of courses comparable to larger departments' offerings. "[A small department] does give students a smaller pool to choose from," Sanskrit's Tubb admits. Afro-Am offers most courses on a rotating basis every three years in order to allow concentrators to fulfill their requirements, Hyatt says. "We can't offer the breadth of courses required by the needs of the college," he says. "Unless I offer new stuff every term, the concentrators are going to run out of courses to take...
...ethos, according to Hart, is an all-out attack on the Western tradition. "Area studies" (such as Afro-Am or Native American studies) supplanted the clasics. Flag burning replaced flag waving. Worst of all "during the late sixties, cultural relativism settled in as the orthodoxy at Dartmouth. 'Value judgements" were evil. We were to be 'non-judgemental.' What they really meant to say was that the core values of the West were now defunct...