What the Restructuring of Humanities does not mean to you

Due to around 40% of Humanities staff being based in the schools History and Literature drama and Creative Writing with the other 60% spread between the other 8 schools in the faculty, Humanities is to undergo a restructuring that will take effect in September 2014.

The restructuring of Humanities is to condense some of the smaller schools within Humanities into larger school for administrative purposes and efficiency.

Arts and Humanities will, from September 2014, be comprised of:

The School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies.

School of Art, Media and American Studies.

The School of History.

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.

While the Faculty School, which handles Humanities Foundation years, will continue to do so under the name of ‘Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities’

How will this affect you?

If you are in your last year and aren’t continuing to do a masters or further study, it won’t, you can stop reading now.

Essentially for those of you who will still be studying from September 2014 onwards, not much is going to change for you either so you could probably stop reading now too.

Your degree will probably be awarded by the new school you are part of if you graduate in 2015 but this is yet to be confirmed. You will still submit work in the Arts and Humanities Hub (YAY) and the same modules and courses will be offered that were on offer before the change.

Basically, nothing will change in the day to day operations of your degree, but your lecturers might be able to help you more because they are less weighed down by paperwork.

What do you think of the Restructuring of Humanities?