Staff are outraged they will no longer will able to teach students in person
Browsing: course cuts
In the best interests of students, the Business School is being increasingly pressured to re-consider the four mandatory subjects, culling BUSS1000 and 2000 whilst only making BUSS1020 and 1030 mandatory for students undertaking Accounting, Finance, and Banking majors.
Macquarie University has gone through with a plan proposed in October last year by the Executive Representatives of the Faculty of Arts to cut Croatian, Modern Greek, Italian, and Russian from its language offerings.
They are incredibly popular courses that receive significant enrolment numbers well above the level required for the University to receive a profitable return on its investment.
In a submission to the Undergraduate Studies Committee, the University has proposed 12 2000-level and 13 3000-level units in the Philosophy department be cut or merged.
Students do have a large range of faculties to choose from, however the desire of the university to offer such a large range of OLEs makes the difference between an OLE and an elective increasingly unclear.
The rally railed against the proposed merger of the Politics and IR degree with Global Studies, as well as 50% of Philosophy units that will be cut.
According to a University spokesperson, the “curriculum refresh” has been favourably accepted by different faculty-based committees.
This year the University of Sydney is the nominated host partnership where Mark Scott serves as the representative of the University of Sydney’s educational ethos.
The 2023 cohort of Art History Honours students condemn proposed changes to Honours degrees under Future FASS.
