TO THE EDITOR:
There aren’t many people fortunate enough to be able to say that they’ve graduated from as prestigious a university as UNC-CH with two bachelor’s degrees.
The fact that I had the opportunity to do so, but won’t because the Department of African and Afro-American Studies simply is not offering the final class needed for me to complete my major this semester or during the summer, is frustrating and unacceptable.
This has led me to have to change from double majoring to having a minor because I am one class short.
When I contacted someone in the department, they informed me that because they weren’t offering an African and Afro-American studies class greater than the 400 level (which was the requirement), they were making an exception by allowing a 300-level course to replace that requirement for this semester only.
This particularly made me upset because I was in a 300-level course earlier this semester and dropped it because it wasn’t a requirement.
This whole situation is unfortunate because the Department of African and Afro-American Studies did not advertise this as well as it should have and seems disorganized with how it handled it.
Instead of taking the initiative and making sure that its senior students were aware of what was going on, the department passed it along to academic advising, putting the burden on them to distribute the information.
Lack of communication with students is constantly present throughout the year with this department.
