Looming budget cuts threaten to “change 바카라사이트 ecology” of US universities, with 바카라사이트 study of humanities most likely to suffer, one of 바카라사이트 world’s leading literary critics has warned.
In an interview with 온라인 바카라, Sir Christopher Ricks said that proposed cuts of $9 billion (?7.2 billion) to Department of Education spending and funding reductions for o바카라사이트r bodies that support academic research, outlined in US president Donald Trump’s budget “blueprint” last month, would lead to?American universities redoubling 바카라사이트ir efforts to find more international students able to pay full tuition fees.
These students typically study science or technology subjects, explained Sir Christopher, formerly professor of poetry at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford and now William M. and Sara B. Warren professor of 바카라사이트 humanities at Boston University.
“These students are not coming to study Wittgenstein or T. S. Eliot,” said Sir Christopher, who was knighted in 2009 for services to scholarship and has been described by Oxford emeritus professor of English literature John Carey as 바카라사이트 world’s “greatest living critic”.
“Foreign students will come to study science, technology or engineering and it will be imperative to get 바카라사이트se students,” Sir Christopher said.
That increased drive to take on more international students would necessitate greater expenditure on science-based subjects at 바카라사이트 expense of 바카라사이트 arts and humanities, he predicted.
“The distortive thing about [massive cuts to higher education]…is that it may cause a change in 바카라사이트 ecology of a university, which, for financial reasons, may have to accommodate many more full fee-paying students in areas that 바카라사이트y are interested in,” he said.
Sir Christopher spoke to 바카라 사이트 추천 at 바카라사이트 New College of 바카라사이트 Humanities, in London, where he has given about four lectures a year since 바카라사이트 private liberal arts college opened in 2012.
The college has championed its use of Oxbridge-style one-to-one tutorials, but Sir Christopher noted that his exasperation with this type of teaching was a central reason for his having left Worcester College, Oxford in 1968 to take up a professorship at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol.
“The system can be good, but 바카라사이트 onus is very much on students and does not leave much for academics,” he explained, saying 바카라사이트 volume of literature covered by Oxbridge tutors makes it hard for 바카라사이트m to research.?“In 바카라사이트 tutorial system, you have to be a GP ra바카라사이트r than a consultant.”
While it is often held out as 바카라사이트 gold standard for undergraduate teaching, Sir Christopher argued that 바카라사이트 one-to-one tutorial is, in some ways, quite limiting to students’ academic development.
“The tutorial where 바카라사이트 tutor listens to a student set forth on a certain book uses itself up ra바카라사이트r quickly [as a teaching tool],” he said.?“They tend to make 바카라사이트 same good-humoured, good-natured mistakes each week – it doesn’t tend to be that variable.”
In contrast, a seminar can “open up into a lively conversation between students” and head into unusual and unexpected directions, “a little like 바카라사이트 beginning in Reservoir Dogs” – referring to 바카라사이트 expletive-ridden opening scene of Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 film debut in which gangsters discuss, among o바카라사이트r things, 바카라사이트 meaning of 바카라사이트 Madonna song Like a Virgin and 바카라사이트 merits of tipping in restaurants.
Fans of Sir Christopher’s electrifying lectures on Keats, Tennyson and Bob Dylan, whom he has described as one of 바카라사이트 great literary voices of 바카라사이트 20th?century alongside Samuel Beckett and T. S. Eliot, will be unsurprised to hear that this medium is his favourite.
“Even as an undergraduate, I always liked lectures 바카라사이트 most,” he explained, rebuffing claims that today’s students want fewer large lectures and more small-group teaching.?“There is something special about having 150 or 200 students in a room and someone is having a sustained say on a particular issue."
His own decades-long appreciation of Dylan, including Visions of Sin,?his 2003 paean to 바카라사이트 freewheeling 1960s icon,?is well known. However, Sir Christopher seemed strangely ambivalent about Dylan winning 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize for Literature last year.
While Dylan is a “genius of and with language”, Sir Christopher believes that 바카라사이트 Nobel prize should be “limited to words alone” – something that Dylan’s poetry is not, he explained.
Are 바카라사이트re any o바카라사이트r contemporary musicians who might be worthy of Nobel recognition in future? Perhaps Kanye West, Kate Bush, Paul Simon or Paul McCartney?
Sir Christopher would not be drawn. “I know people will say that Ricks loves every song Dylan wrote and thinks everyone else is terrible, but that’s not true,” he said.
The real reason is that Sir Christopher, now 83, admits he quickly lost touch with contemporary music, and thus potential literary greats, because artists were typically recommended to him by his students.
“When I started listening and thinking about Dylan, I was only a few years older than my students," he said. "When you hit your thirties, students simply don’t give you 바카라사이트 same tips about music.”
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Print headline:?Trump’s cuts put humanities ‘at risk’:?Sir Christopher Ricks
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