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SHOWS: "WILLIAM H. JOHNSON: HIS EARLY CAREER"; "WILLIAM H. JOHNSON AND AFRO AMERICA...
...will teach a seminar in the English department on screen writing. Enrollment, a limited to 15, will be based on a writing sample. In the Afro-American Studies department, Lee will lead another course on contemporary African-American cinema. This year's enrollment will be pared to 25; as in last year's course, preference will be given to Afro-Am and Visual and Environmental Studies concentrators...
...stance runs counter to the viewpoints of many of his outspoken students, he says. "People sometimes say we [in Afro-American Studies] aren't Afrocentric enough," he says...
More immediately, Appiah will be handling much of the restructuring of the Afro-American Studies Department. Next year, he will teach Afro-Am 10, a new course which will introduce the major works and issues of the field. In addition, the department will offer two smaller required courses, 11 and 12, with annually changing topics...
Appiah says the new courses, which will replace the sophomore and junior tutorials, are an attempt to accommodate concentrators who decided to enter the department late. The increasing numbers in the recently rejuvenated department seem to confirm his vision of Afro-American studies as a subject which appeals across disciplinary and cultural lines...