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NEW NAME FOR DEPARTMENT
The Faculty voted yesterday to change the name of the Department of Literature and Comparative Literature into the Department of Comparative Literature.
Department Chair David N. Damrosch said that the department—as well as the Faculty Council—unanimously approved the name change. The current name “seems to all of us on the faculty to represent a kind of transitional phase in the merging of these...
The literature department was formed nearly four years ago through a merger of the undergraduate concentration in literature and the graduate program in comparative literature.
The Music department also offers some performance-based classes, such as a chamber music course and Dr. William Bares’ new Jazz Improvisation course. Both of these courses are centered on creating art for credit, an endeavor that the Task Force strove to promote.