Students embrace block teaching but some staff still unconvinced

Glad I am not a student now as I would have found studying fewer things at once pretty boring. I used to find that there was considerable excitement in having different topics to deal with.

Imagine studying engineering by block. 7 weeks solid of maths. Then another 7 weeks solid of maths. Then 7 weeks of Electrical + Electronics. Then 7 weeks of Mechanics and Structures... I'd find it demoralising.

This literally makes no sense, at the research end it's all about multi disciplinary work and integrating diverse themes to work together to find new answers and at the teaching they are homogenising it all into blocks or "silos"

Block teaching can work if it is done over a week, not 7 weeks. I have taught under such a system where the block teaching was done from Monday to Wednesday per module, with a break of 3 weeks, before returning for another week of teaching the module. Thursday and Fridays were for ethics, and co-curricular classes. Class attendance was brilliant, students and staff engaged. It is how the block teaching is designed that is the problem, not the idea of block teaching itself.

This is also unworkable for performing arts courses. Would students be expected to dance for 6 hours a day for a 7 week block, 6 hours of singing for the next block, etc.?