The Melbourne Model

[brendan]

i think the whole compulsory breadth requirement was not really thought through, and my conversations with a few professors confirm this. One could always allow students to do subjects outside their home faculty without making it compulsory to do so.

"There are purists who are doing real second-rate breadth subjects, like African drumming, or poetics of the body, or dancing and prancing 101, as a means of avoiding a more full-on subject outside the faculty,"

lol

[brendan]

Simon Marginson is a professor of higher education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is Prospects of Higher Education, sensepublishers.com.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/making-the-cap-fit/2008/02/16/1202760669192.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1