Associate Professor Gene Hodgins, whose official title is Associate Head of School (Learning & Teaching) & Clinical Psychologist, said he was confident the faculty would be able to adapt to the new challenges.

"I can't talk for the whole university but psychology [courses] are looking good," he said.

"We're certainly noticing summer session enrolments going up."

As of 2021, the Wagga campus will no longer be offering face-to-face classes to first-year students.

Instead, it will continue to offer internal classes in Bathurst and Port Macquarie while transitioning all other students to online.

Despite the move away from Wagga, Professor Hodgins said he was still confident there would be "plenty of work" for his seven or so colleagues.

"Wagga staff in psychology will teach out the course, but we also will teach into distance classes," Professor Hodgins said.

"We would have preferred internal classes weren't stopped, but it was a university decision."

In July, under the university's sustainable futures program, CSU announced it would be changing the delivery mode of 61 courses while phasing out up to 48 courses with low or no enrolments.

According to the announcement four months ago, the Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) experienced declining enrolments over the past five years, and will now be offered almost entirely online.

Also slated for face-to-face removal will be the Bachelor of Information Technology, which will be offered online or at the Bathurst campus.

The university has also said it will be "consolidating" its business and science offerings, with some moving online.

In terms of the psychology changes, however, Professor Hodgins indicated the move to online delivery made practical sense.

"Majority of our students have been distance students [who have] preferred online [delivery]," he said.

"But no doubt there are some who prefer the face-to-face. They are different, but [both] have attractions."

Professor Hodgins said in his mind, the changes represent a situation that is far beyond the control of any individual university, and have only been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The course cuts come off the back of the job losses announced earlier this year, which are intended to soften CSU's $80 million loss in revenue and predicted $49.5 million deficit by mid-2021.

"There's certainly lots of changes happening around the sector, [and] I think the whole sector is having to come to terms with everything that happened over the last couple of years, even before COVID," he said.