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Bro you are smack in the middle
of a college campus we don’t
give a FUCK
think that’s the thing –– there’s
no need to make the name fancy
if it just gets to what it’s talking
about. What we are studying is
film, television and media, so
might as well call it that.”
According to a press release
from the College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts, the SAC
name was initially adopted to
be adaptable to the changing
technologies of the industry.
Department Chair Yeidy Rivero,
however, heard many stories
similar
to
Georginis’s
from
students, parents and alumni.
“Students didn’t know how to
find the department. Parents of
students didn’t know what their
children were studying. Donors
— many of them from Hollywood
— didn’t know what ‘screen arts
and culture’ meant,” Rivero said
in the release. “I look forward to
the day when students find the
department not by chance, but
because they came to Michigan
deliberately to study in the
Department of Film, Television,
and Media.”
Rivero
expressed
her
excitement for the name change
in the release.
“Finally their employees will
know what they studied!” she
exclaimed. “‘Screen Arts and
Culture’ — it’s, like, what?”
Business and LSA sophomore
Andrew Armstrong, an FTVM
major, agreed the new name
better encompasses what the
major actually involves and said
attracting more students was
likely part of the department’s
reasoning.
“The real reason I think they
changed the name was just
so that they could try and get
more people into it, because I
think a lot of people are most
interested in television than,
say, film, or more interested in
digital media,” he said. “People
are more likely to sign up for a
major if it’s very explicit, like
history,
English,
mechanical
engineering. You hear that and
you know exactly what you’re
getting into. Screen arts and
culture is a little more vague.”
While the Film, Television,
and
Media
Department
has changed its name only
once,
other
departments
are on their third, or –– in
the case of the formally-
called Department of Near
Eastern Studies, now the
Department
of
Middle
East Studies –– their sixth
designation.
The
department
effectively began in 1889
under Carl William Belser,
an assistant professor of
“Oriental Languages” who
taught Hebrew, Assyrian
and Arabic. Since then, the
department has been known
as the Department of Semitic
Studies,
the
Department
of Oriental Languages and
Literatures, the Department
of Near Eastern Studies, the
Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Literatures,
and now the Department of
Middle East Studies.
As with previous changes,
this most recent change
is in keeping with the
parlance of a large majority
of students and faculty. In a
departmental press release
this month, Department Chair
Gottfried Hagen noted how few
people still use the term Near
East.
“‘Near East’ for a long time
was used for the same region,
in contradistinction to a Middle
East and a Far East, denoting
South and East Asia, respectively,
but with changing perspectives,
Near and Middle East came to
mean more or less the same, and
today, as a quick Google search
will show, Near East is becoming
obsolete,” Hagen wrote. “No
name is perfect. ‘Middle East’
still smacks of Eurocentrism,
for instance. But are we ready
for ‘Department of West Asian,
Southeast European, Caucasian,
Iranian, and North African
Studies’?”
Public Policy junior Nadia
Hakim is minoring in Middle
East
studies
and
agreed
changing the name will probably
reduce confusion both for those
studying it and those who are
not.
“I kind of had an idea (of what
Near East meant) but it was kind
of this weird gray area, like,
what is Near East referring to?”
Hakim asked. “Whereas because
we use Middle East more, it’s
more concrete. I think the
Middle East as a term also can be
problematic, but I think it makes
more sense. ‘I’m doing the minor
in the Middle East.’ It just makes
more sense.”
However, Hakim said, the
name was nothing more than a
tagline to her studies.
“I think the name itself is
not the biggest thing that could
change,” she said. “For me, it’s
more content of classes, how
they’re approaching the Middle
East, what type of framework
they’re applying to classes and
stuff like that. The name itself, I
think, is just a reflection of how
we don’t really use the term Near
East more than anything.”
SAC
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“I go to that place
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Also, it just looks
looks nice with all
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