Idea
Budget Cuts affecting diversity of courses
Category: Teaching
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Due to the recent budget cuts in teaching, departments have reduced the modules offered to continuing students. Not only does this reduce the content available to certain pathways (for example; the music department has had to cut World Music Traditions from the Ethnomusicology pathway. Now there is only one other module that is beyond Western Music and is a very specific genre) but decreases the diversity of modules offered as more students will be doing similar sets of modules. For some of us, these modules that have been cut where the reasons for choosing the Durham Course over other universities. Additionally in the current climate, it seems problematic to reduce the education offered (as academia is the only "safety net" offered in the oncoming recession how can we distinguish ourselves from the next Durham graduate), and to increase the population of a module (more students in a module meaning that there are more people competing for the already limited contact hours).
Surely cutting content goes against the universities best interests of a well rounded, diverse education. I propose that the university aids the department in offering all its usual courses
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