An honours course covering “queer and trans geographies” has been dropped by Edinburgh University one week into the semester as the institution seeks cuts of £140 million.
It is understood that students turned up to the first timetabled lessons this autumn to be told it may be withdrawn as a cost-cutting measure.
Cancellation was then confirmed, with students directed to other units within the School of Geosciences. Edinburgh University said it had paused the unit due to the small number of students who had signed up.
Part of an undergraduate geography degree programme, the “Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender” class was described as an opportunity for students to “critically, and self-reflexively, consider how sexuality and gender inform and unfold in the everyday spaces we inhabit”.
Assessment was in the form of a 4,000-word journal.
