"Af-Am 10" is being offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Afro-American studies department seminar room.
Side Benefits
"It is obviously sad for our offerings when either [Gates or West] isn't able to teach, but we struggle on," Appiah says.
Ghartey-Tagoe says she cannot take many of the classes she had planned on taking because of absent professors, but says their absence can be made into a positive situation by focusing on the resources of the department as a whole.
"Students who take Af-Am 10 with Appiah are being exposed to one of the most brilliant minds--he's smarter than the entire campus," Ghartey-Tagoe says.
She adds that the absence of West has led to relationships with other Faculty that might not otherwise have existed.
"While I'm wondering 'Where are my professors and why are you leaving me stranded,' because Professor West isn't here, I've been interacting a lot more with Professor Higginbotham, who's the only tenured, black, woman professor here," Ghartey-Tagoe says.
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