"such department" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a specific department that was previously mentioned or implied. For example, "Our company is expanding and we are looking for an experienced manager to head up such department."
(There is no such department).
Dr. Mandel was the founding director of the division of preventive dentistry at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, the first such department in the country.
Ms. Tripp helped establish and became the first director of the town's Department of Industry and Tourism, the first such department in Nassau County.
Dr. Bok said the era when Dr. Moore was Brigham's chief of surgery was a time when the tone, the standards and the ethical principles of medical schools were shaped by such department chiefs.
Special library collections include those on medical history at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, the Booker T. Washington Collection of black history material at Tuskegee University, and the Alabama and Southern history material at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, founded in 1901 as the first such department established in the United States.
He founded and served as the director of the Division of Preventive Dentistry at Columbia, the first such department in the country, and also served as the founding director of the Center for Clinical Research in Dentistry, and as the Dental School's Associate Dean for Research before attaining emeritus status in 1992.
At elite universities, such departments are safe but wary.
Across China, the universities labeled jiaotong — meaning communications — are taking the lead in building such departments.
A series of high-profile police killings of unarmed men in cities across the US, including in New York City, has intensified scrutiny of how such departments operate.
The word agitprop is used in English to describe such departments and, by extension, any work, especially in the theatre, that aims to educate and indoctrinate the public.
The media arts production program has its genesis in City College's original film studies department, one of the first such departments in the United States, and in the college's history as a haven for refugees.
