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CAS to launch Transnational Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences has announced it is creating a Division of Transnational Studies in an effort to further connections between several of the college’s departments and programs.
CAS Dean Bruce D. McCombe calls the new division “a commitment to UB’s development as a leading international center in this field.”
“This structure will maintain the autonomy of the departments and programs, which will retain their chairs and directors,” he says, “but will facilitate closer collaboration between affiliated faculty and students.”
He says the division, to be launched in the fall and directed by Keith Griffler, chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, will include the departments of African and African American Studies, American Studies and Global Gender Studies, and the programs in Canadian Studies, Caribbean Cultural Studies, Latina/Latino Studies and Polish Studies.
“We hope it contributes to the process of finding new ways for academic units to work together creatively to promote two principle goals of UB 2020: interdisciplinary and internationalization,” McCombe says.
Griffler notes that the division has taken shape over the past two academic years through a collaborative process involving the faculty of the constituent departments and programs.
“The faculty and students of the division have embraced the opportunity to become a leading international center of transnational studies, an increasingly prominent intellectual approach to understanding the past and the present,” he says.
McCombe adds that the division is expected to provide more efficient delivery of the three undergraduate majors, five minors, four MA and two PhD programs offered by the units and the staffing needs associated with them.
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