The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados Departmental Reports 2016–2017 The University of the West Indies Our Mission To advance learning, create knowledge and foster innovation for the positive transformation of the Caribbean and the wider world. Our Vision An excellent global university rooted in the Caribbean. Our Core Values Integrity Excellence Gender Justice Diversity Student Centredness 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 130 Faculty of Science and 214 Institute for Gender and & Education Technology Development Studies: 5 Dean’s Overview 131 Dean’s Overview Nita Barrow Unit 9 Cultural Studies Department 135 Department of Biological 13 Department of History and Chemical Sciences & Philosophy 143 Department of Computer 226 Non-Teaching Departments 20 Department of Language, Science, Mathematics and 226 The Academy of Sport Linguistics & Literature Physics Cave Hill 31 Codrington College 149 Centre for Resource 232 The Centre For Excellence in Management and Teaching & Learning (CETL) 32 Errol Barrow Centre for Environmental Studies Creative Imagination (EBCCI) (CERMES) 248 Cave Hill Libraries 39 School of Education 251 Office of Student Services 267 UWI HIV/AIDS Response Programme (UWIHARP) 162 Faculty of Social Sciences 46 Faculty of Law 163 Dean’s Overview 47 Dean’s Overview 166 Department of Economics 67 Faculty of Law Library 174 Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work 186 Department of 78 Faculty of Medical Sciences Management Studies 79 Dean’s Overview 200 Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies 113 The George Alleyne Chronic (SALISES) Disease Research Centre (GA-CDRC) 208 Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services 4 Faculty of Humanities & Education 2016 – 2017 • Dean’s Overview • Cultural Studies Department • Department of History & Philosophy • Department of Language, Linguistics & Literature • Codrington College • Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination • School of Education DEAN Deputy Dean (Planning and Graduate Affairs) Head, Department of History & Philosophy Dr Jennifer Obidah Professor Evelyn O’Callaghan Dr Elaine Rocha BA (Hunter College, CUNY), MA (Yale), BA (UCC), MLitt (Oxford), PhD (UWI) MA (Sao Paulo), MA (Pretoria), PhD (Sao Paulo) PhD (UC Berkeley) Deputy Dean (Outreach) Head, Department of Language Dr Korah Belgrave Linguistics & Literature BA (UWI), MA (Leeds) MPhil, PhD (UWI) Dr Ian Craig BA (London), MA (Essex), PhD (London) 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 2016–2017 5 DEAN’S OVERVIEW he Faculty of Humanities and Education continued to grapple with the decline favourable evaluation. In addition, Faculty Management staff was heavily involved in Tin enrolment as a result of the introduction of tuition fees by the Barbados inputting data and ideas as the University was also in the final stages of producing its Government in 2014, and the financial downturn across the CARICOM Caribbean. That 2017 – 2022 Strategic Plan. said, all Departments, Schools and Units responded with creative initiatives. Talks on New and more vocational and applied programmes were introduced, such as collaboration and offering joint programmes with other disciplines in FHE and across the Bachelor of Arts in Applied Linguistics with Communication Studies and the Faculties at Cave Hill Campus have begun, and members of the Faculty brainstormed to Bachelor of Arts in Language and Society. The School of Education has nearly completed come up with income-generating initiatives as well as outreach activities including the the approval process for the new Bachelor’s Degree of Education in Early Childhood attachment of seminarians from Codrington College to institutions such as the Queen Care & Education. The MA in History was revised with a view to including new Elizabeth Hospital, the Barbados Defense Force and Verdun House. Dr Rampersad digital communication skills to enhance graduate research competencies as well as (History and Philosophy) finalized the website of the Caribbean Heritage Network documentary production, images and sound heritage preservation. In answer to demand created with the support of the Organization of American States, which was launched from students and members of the public, staff in Literature began the design of a Minor at an OAS Workshop in May 2017. Additionally public lectures by visiting international in Creative Writing, a key step towards introducing an MFA in Creative Writing at Cave scholars cemented relationships the Faculty continues to build across the globe. Some Hill. Along with the annual Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop in May, this is the natural highlights included the Seventh Annual George Lamming Lecture organized by the Errol outcome of courses, workshops and master classes offered as part of literary studies Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, delivered by Vice Chancellor Professor Sir over many years, the continued publication of POUI: Cave Hill Creative Writing Journal Hilary Beckles in June, 2017 on the topic, “Britain’s Perfect Crime: Ignored Genocide, (now up to issue XVII) and an acknowledgement of the significance of this niche area Faked Emancipation, Insincere Independence and No Reparations,” and the third Kamau for students in the region and the diaspora. Writing of another kind was celebrated at Brathwaite lecture in Cultural Studies in February, 2017 when UCLA professor, Robin the launch in October 2016 of a new Writing Clinic, designed to cultivate writing skills Kelley, delivered a lecture titled “Trumpism and the Crisis of Black America.” amongst students, staff and members of the public through individual or small-group consultations and special events. Meanwhile, the Confucius Institute, temporarily located The Annual Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) in April 2017 featured keynote in the Faculty, moved to its spanking new and strikingly designed building; Modern speaker Professor Paget Henry of Brown University, and two major international Languages continued to collaborate with the Institute in designing a Minor in Chinese, conferences were successfully hosted by the Department of Language, Linguistics and as already offered at the Mona Campus. The focus was on the creative as well as the Literature: the 19th Annual Eastern Caribbean “Islands in Between” Conference in academic, as the EBCCI partnered with the Local Organizing Committee to host the November 2016 and the Dictionary Society of North America’s 21st Annual Conference inaugural Barbados International Film Festival (BIFF) in January, 2017. The five-day festival in June 2017 (the first to be held outside North America). Another international featured filmmakers from Ethiopia, USA, Mexico and Australia as well as the Caribbean. event, the “Translating Creolization” Symposium II, took place in May, 2017 and EBCCI mounted the three day interdisciplinary Annual Conference of the African Theatre Students in the Faculty of Humanities and Education were involved in international Association in July 2017. partnerships which enabled them to travel to Brazil, China, South Africa and Mexico, and we welcomed a diverse group of exchange students – from Canada to Finland, Ecuador Faculty members organized and participated in activities to celebrate the 50th and Panama – to our courses and programmes. Anniversary of Barbados’s Independence, including the outstanding Lecture Series coordinated by Dr Tara Inniss, and were fully occupied with preparations for Barbados It was a challenging and busy year, and the Faculty continues to put its creative thinking Accreditation Council (BAC) to conduct a Mid-cycle Review of the accreditation status and critical analysis to work in addressing its future trajectory and that of this campus. of Cave Hill Campus in March 2017. The resultant Self-Evaluation Report, which drew extensively on work at faculty level, was deemed reflective and analytical, addressing the various challenges faced by the campus. The Report, its appendices and the other materials provided were of considerable assistance to the team in conducting its 6 Faculty of Humanities & Education STUDENTS Table 1B: Undergraduate Registration by Major % Change Major 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 from UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL 2013/14 Creative Arts 37 50 70 87 (-57) For the 2016/2017 academic year, the student intake for all undergraduate degree Education 28 36 52 83 (-66) programmes in the Faculty of Humanities and Education was 361, a decline of 26% from the previous academic year. This decline was also recorded in the non-degree French 20 15 21 25 (-22) programmes (Study Abroad and Occasional or Specially Admitted students) which fell French and Spanish 11 14 11 24 (-54) significantly from 74 registrations in 2015/2016 to 14 registrations in 2016/2017. Table 1A (double major) gives the comparative distribution of undergraduate student registrations by Programme History 32 41 57 110 (-71) from 2014/2015 to 2016/2017. Linguistics 59 65 95 147 (-60) Literatures in English 56 57 70 94 (-40) Table 1A: Undergraduate Registration by Programme