Arts @ unsw is great. I transferred out of USyd Arts into UNSW, because I didn't at all like Arts @ USyd. Others will disagree, but it hardly merits the kind of comment from bringbackshred.
Well the fact that we've lost 2/3rds of the courses we had in 2007 doesn't bode well. History has gone from 7 first year classes to 2 and it's shed almost all its 3000 level classes. We get all these bizzare triple and quadruple coded courses in an attempt to cram shed classes into others. It doesn't work.
Then in the school of languages we've lost 2 hours a week contact time while still being expected to learn the same foreign language content, and we've lost all the casual language staff (forcing tenured academics to teach first year foreign language classes... no wonder they keep leaving).
The long term plans of the university simply do not include a vibrant or well-resourced Arts faculty. It shows.
Oh and the Morven Brown building might be giving people cancer!
