Okay. The university has announced that you will eliminate sculpture program for two reasons. First, it’s lack of students’ interest. Although the arts students number has increased, the major student who took the class has declined. And the second reason is that only professor in the program has retired this year. And the woman in the conversation, however the woman in the conversation is against this idea. And to start, she points out that it’s due to the lacking of the time that student has no time to take the selective program because of many other requirements. And her solution is like to eliminate other requirements program and give the student to set out a new class in the light. And for the professor part, she mentioned that they can hire a part-time professor or in addition, some professors in the program have secondary skills to teach sculpture class. Okay.
Band 6+: The woman expresses her opinion about the university's plan. State her opinion, and explain the reasons she gives for holding it.
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Okay. The university has announced that it will eliminate the sculpture program for two reasons. First, it's a lack of student interest. Although the number of arts students has increased, the number of students taking the class has declined. The second reason is that the only professor in the program has retired this year. However, the woman in the conversation is against this idea. She points out that students lack the time to take elective programs due to many other requirements. Her solution is to eliminate some of the other requirements and allow students to set up a new class in the light. Regarding the professor situation, she mentioned that they can hire a part-time professor, or in addition, some professors in the program have secondary skills to teach the sculpture class. Okay.
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