In this case - I checked - it has nothing to do with the department. Professor Grillo, the head of the Art Department, has put ART 350 (Graphic Design II) on the requested schedule for Spring 2015, meaning that as far as he's concerned, the department should and will be offering it...

... unless the University, at some level above the Art Department, does not fund it, which happens some years. We won't know until the spring catalog is published after the midterm break.*

The University of Maine, despite its name, is primarily an engineering school these days. (By the strictest definition it's actually not a university any longer, since it's stopped offering degrees in Latin and Classics.) The College of Engineering pretty much gets whatever it wants whenever it demands it, from the President of the University and/or the Chancellor of the University of Maine System in Augusta. The other six colleges at the Orono flagship campus (to say nothing of the other schools in the University System) fight over the scraps, and the Arts part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences isn't a very big hyena.

--G.
* I use the term "break" ironically. Do you know what the University of Maine's official Fall Break consists of? The Tuesday after Columbus Day. I'm totally serious.
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