Departments

[Tyler Hewitt]

No: HPFGUIDX 56122

Dan wrote:
> There's an entire DEPARTMENT for Astronomy? Just how
many astronomy teachers are there? As far as I can
tell, none of the other subjects have entire
departments. Throughout all of the books (and 
> that whole passage is a good example) it always
refers to only ONE teacher for each subject. I've
never read, for instance, of any other Transfiguration
teachers besides McGonagal, or Charms teachers besides
Flitwick (sp?).

Silence responded:
Well, the technical definition of Department is just
"c. A division of a school or college dealing with a
particular field of knowledge: the physics
department." Could it just be possible to have one
teacher in each division? 


Me:
Its possible to have one teacher per department. I
went to a very small graduate school (Cranbrook
Academy of Art), there is one teacher per department
there, and about 15 students per department (with 10
departments thats a total enrollment of around 150
students). Oh, officially the faculty at Cranbrook are
artists in residence, not teachers, but thats
mainly a difference in title only.  If Cranbrook does
it, there have to be others as well. Cant imagine
that theres only one. 
So, yes, it is possible that a department can exist
with only one faculty member. I imagine that a one
person department faculty at Hogwarts would set
departmental goals, curriculum, etc. as well as teach.
Maybe some subjects have committee (or possibly
Ministry of Magic?) mandated curriculum, and therefore
may not be technically departments. 

Tyler

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