Word: departmentment
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That definition, he claims, is not based on faculty appointments but rather on the quality of the faculty and the numbers of related courses taught throughout the curriculum. While he says "that doesn't mean that we have a lot more people," Huggins adds that the department is still strong...
As evidence of this strength, department members point to the growing list of related courses offered by other departments which count for Afro-Am credit. Specifically, they cite the popularity of Literature and Arts A-50, "Black Women Writers," and other courses dealing with questions of ethnicity and Afro-American...
But the dean says there are no plans to significantly expand the Afro-Am Department.
And right now the department is still struggling to hire faculty members for openings which have not been filled over the past few years.
Afro-Am is currently conducting a search to fill either a senior or junior slot in the social sciences, Huggins says. And Sollors has said that a joint appointment is in the works with the Music Department to replace the retired ethno-musicologist Eileen J. Southern.