Featured on the cover A group of our Ecuadorian students registered in the Cave Hill component of the Enseña Inglés Caribe 2015 (Teach English Caribbean (TEC) 2015) programme. The programme started in November 2015 with 129 students, fifty of whom are located at Cave Hill. The Campus has overall responsibility for the academic quality of the TEC programme, which is also being delivered at the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) and the Dominica State College (DSC). The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados Departmental Reports 2014–2015 The University of the West Indies MISSION STATEMENT To advance education and create knowledge through excellence in teaching, research, innovation, public service, intellectual leadership and outreach in order to support the inclusive (social, economic, political, cultural, environmental) development of the Caribbean region and beyond. These Reports, which represent the research and teaching activities of the departments and the activities of non-teaching departments at Cave Hill, are presented annually to Campus Council and to the University Council. Reports are similarly presented at Mona and St. Augustine. Contents 4 Faculty of Humanities 134 Faculty of Science and 216 Institute for Gender and & Education Technology Development Studies: 5 Dean’s Overview 135 Dean’s Overview Nita Barrow Unit 10 Cultural Studies Department 140 Department of Biological 15 Department of History and Chemical Sciences & Philosophy 150 Department of Computer Non-Teaching Departments 23 Department of Language, Science, Mathematics and 228 The Academy of Sport Linguistics & Literature Physics Cave Hill 30 Errol Barrow Centre for 153 Centre for Resource 234 The Centre For Excellence in Creative Imagination (EBCCI) Management and Teaching & Learning (CETL) Environmental Studies 35 School of Education (CERMES) 246 The Sidney Martin Library 250 Office of Student Services 264 UWI HIV/AIDS Response Programme (UWIHARP) 48 Faculty of Law 166 Faculty of Social Sciences 49 Dean’s Overview 167 Dean’s Overview 71 Faculty of Law Library 169 Department of Economics 177 Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work 80 Faculty of Medical Sciences 189 Department of Management 81 Dean’s Overview Studies 115 Chronic Disease 205 Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Research Centre (CDRC) Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) 210 Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services 4 Faculty of Humanities & Education 2014 – 2015 • Dean’s Overview • Cultural Studies • Department of History & Philosophy • Department of Language, Linguistics & Literature • Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination • School of Education DEAN Deputy Dean (Planning and Graduate Affairs) Head, Department of History & Philosophy Dr Jennifer Obidah Dr Richard Goodridge Professor Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo BA (Hunter College, CUNY), MA (Yale), BA (UWI), MA, PhD (Ibadan) BA, MA, PhD (Nairobi) PhD (UC Berkeley) Deputy Dean (Outreach) Head, Department of Language, Dr Korah Belgrave Linguistics & Literature BA (UWI), MA (Leeds) MPhil, PhD (UWI) Dr Kahiudi Mabana BA (Mayidi), (UPU Rome), MA, PhD (Fribourg) Director, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination Professor Gladstone Yearwood BFA (NYU), MA, PhD (Ohio University) Director, School of Education Dr Babalola Ogunkola BSc, PGDE (Lagos), MEd, PhD (Ibadan) Faculty of Humanities & Education 2014–2015 5 DEAN’S OVERVIEW The past year in the Faculty of Humanities and Education (FH&E) at the Cave Hill quality assurance reviews. We strive to offer programmes and courses to engage Campus has been one of challenging times, and yet, one of tremendous rebirth. Our students in activities that not only extend their knowledge and expertise in humanities undergraduate enrolment continued on a downward slide with a 32% drop in student and education, but prepare them to improve the human condition through their registrations over the previous year. This drop is primarily a continued result of the contributions to the world of work. Of note, six Spanish students were selected to teach introduction of tuition fees for Barbadian students. For example, parents who were English in Columbia, and eight French students went on to teach English in France and formerly students and who also had children attending the University had apparently Guadeloupe. Our faculty continues to improve their teaching skills with 2 more faculty sacrificed their own education in order to pay for and secure better futures for their members completing the Certificate in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning (CUTL) in children. The significant drop in part-time, evening students, is evidence of this, as well as 2014/2015. Up to February 2015, 19 persons had already graduated from the Programme. the fact that the student population is now much younger than in previous years. However, within the Chinese characters for the word “crisis” are the characters for Department Highlights “danger” and “crucial moment”. Popular cultural thought often defines this crucial moment as “opportunity,’ but in fact, a crucial moment can be a moment when the crisis Among the highlights of the work in each Department during the year under review, goes further awry or the moment when persons create radical change for the better. was the establishment of a Translation Bureau within the Department of Languages, We at the FH&E are engaged in radical change for the better. Linguistics and Literatures (LLL). Additionally, one of the faculty members from this Department, Dr Stacy Denny, spearheaded the English as a Second Language (ESL) We began the year with a Faculty Retreat held in January at the Codrington College. programme out of the Principal’s Office. The School of Education (SoE) successfully held Of the 72 faculty members and 6 Administrative Assistants, approximately 50 persons the Schools of Education Biennial Conference in June. Significantly, for the past three attended. The feedback on the Retreat was very positive and it was agreed for this to years, the SoE was the department in the Faculty graduating the largest number of PhD be an annual event on the Faculty’s calendar. We were also pleased to note the revival students. of the Humanities Festival after a seven year hiatus. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the UWI, and distinguished economic historian, was named the 2015 The Department of History and Philosophy continued to work on the UNESCO World Humanities Scholar. The Faculty also participated in the Secondary School Guidance Heritage Project in partnership with the Barbados Government and the Barbados Counselor’s Career Showcase, where we interacted with over 4500 secondary school Museum and Historical Society. They also continued to host the Cave Hill Philosophy students who visited the campus during the event. Symposium (CHiPS) and held its 10th edition in 2014. In addition to undergoing a critical quality review process in the last year, the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination This year, the “UWI 101”, was a new initiative implemented by the Faculty and (EBCCI) began the process of revising their programme offerings and continued to scheduled to be an annual event. UWI 101 is a one-week programme that introduced showcase the arts through their myriad cultural events throughout the year. The secondary school students, aged 15-17 years, to life as a student of the Cave Hill Cultural Studies Programme held the inaugural Kamau Brathwaite Lecture series on Campus. Participants were immersed in an experience that included comprehensive March 22, 2015. Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald, retired Pro-Vice Chancellor and and stimulating curriculum taught by members of all five Faculties on campus. Students former Principal of the Open Campus delivered the first lecture. The Faculty established were also given the opportunity to spend one night at one of the halls of residence, closer alignment with Codrington College in terms of structuring programmes and more and participate in activities with the Office of Student Services. Overall, a total of 81 involvement of their faculty in university meetings. This alignment began under Principal, students from 18 of the 24 secondary schools in Barbados participated. The programme Dr Ian Rock. was sponsored this year by the First Caribbean International Bank. In terms of regionalism, all Departments have renewed connections with their The Faculty revised and expanded its course and programme offerings to include a departments at sister campuses through teleconferencing around major decisions, survey course in Caribbean History, the Early Childhood Education programme, and intercampus festivals, biennial conferences or campus meetings. the Creative Arts programme. We continued to reexamine our current offerings – content, relevance and quality – and in this vein, three of our programmes underwent 6 Faculty of Humanities & Education STUDENTS Table 1B: Undergraduate Registration by Major UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL Major 2014/2015 2013/2014 % Change Creative Arts 70 87 -20% For the 2014/2015 academic year, the student intake for all undergraduate degree Education 52 83 -37% programmes in the Faculty was 645. Tables 1A and 1B show a comparative distribution of student registrations by Programme and by Major respectively. A closer analysis revealed French 21 25 -16% that all programmes in the Faculty recorded a drop in enrolment, and this was evident French and Spanish (double major) 11 24 -54% in both part-time and full-time student registrations. Overall,