Category talk:University faculties

[edit] Proposals for restructuring the university faculty metaphor

Here is a bag of suggestions. --McCormack 08:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Create an "arts" faculty for things like film, drama, fine arts and the like. Move, merge or rename the "media" faculty/portal into/with/as the "arts" faculty.
The "practical arts and sciences" faculty is simply too innovative to be useful as a navigational metaphor. I suggest we create an "applied sciences" faculty and move the "engineering and technology" faculty into this, as well as part of the "practical arts and sciences".
The other part of "practical arts and sciences" needs to go into something like "vocational training", "technical training" or "career education". There is a lot of education out there which doesn't exactly fall under "professions" (which is too high a term, and not necessarily pratical). One might also merge this new faculty with "professions" into something like "professional and vocational".
The "computer science" faculty sounds too technology orientated; educational needs in this area are about information and media literacy. I suggest renaming this faculty to "information sciences", "faculty of media literacy" or something like that.
One day we might need a "health sciences" or "medicine and health sciences" faculty.

Resulting new structure: