Expos Program to Undergo Changes in Basic Format

Lower-group expository writing courses will last only one semester next year, according to Roger Rosenblatt, director of Expository Writing.

In addition, each expose seminar will concern itself with one specific field of interest. Rosenblatt said that this program, which is now in effect only for middle-group courses, was originated several years ago by Robert J. Kiely, former director of Expository Writing.

Specious Selection

"There has always been the specious notion that only highly-developed students could do this sort of work," Rosenblatt explained, "but this subject-oriented approach should obviously be more interesting for everyone."

A committee of teaching fellows was organized last spring to investigate teachers' and students" gripes concerning the present program.

Two major complaints concerned the number of students per class and the number of working hours for the teaching fellows. Classes this year had 25-30 students and teaching fellows worked about 20 hours, compared to an average of eight hours in other fields.

Divide and Develop

Resenblatt hopes the number of students can be brought down to 24, in a class which might be broken down during the term into progressively smaller and more individualized groups.

According to Rosenblatt, 25 out of about 1500 students are "completely lost... and have so little preparation that they need special training." Tutors will be provided for these students by the Bureau of Study Council.

"The new program should decrease the teaching time but increase the efficiency," Rosenblatt said. "It is really much better to have a one-term thing because the general impression of the teaching fellows was that the breaking-up of the courses into nine-week and seven-week sections led to a halfhearted effort during the second term."