English Dep't. to Add Ten Courses Next Year

Nine or ten half courses for next year and the revival of English I two years from now will bolster the English Department's now-slim list of offerings for undergraduates. But students this spring will still have to choose from the smallest selection of middle group English courses in recent years.

Walter J. Bate '39, chairman of the English Department, yesterday revealed the Department's plans to increase its middle-group instruction by four or five half courses and to offer another four or five 200-level courses that will be open to undergraduates. English 1, a general survey of nearly all of English Literature, will be given in 1962-63 by William Alfred and David D. Perkins '51, both associate professors of English.

This term, however, the Department will offer just one full course (English 115) and five half-courses, in addition to three Comparative Literature and Humanities classes listed under English in the course catalogue.

Bate and Perkins both denied that the English Department's tutorial-for-all program had had any effect on the number of courses given. Perkins said that most tutorial work was done by the junior Faculty, and the senior members undertook tutorial in addition to, not in place of, teaching duties.

Greater Flexibility Expected

Bagte also indicated that the recent CEP proposal, at first opposed by the English Department because it would curtail the Department's unique tutorial program, will be re-worded to allow more flexibility of approach. "We may be increasing tutorial for people not in Honors," Bate said.

Several factors contributed to the Department's small course list this spring, Bate said. Only two assistant professors are on the Department's staff this year, compared to the usual four or five. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, is heading two half-courses instead of his usual four because of his work in Humanities 143, and three other men dropped a half course each to teach a Freshman Seminar.

For next year Bate pointed out the return of theatre and novel courses--not ably English 160, "Drama since Ibsen;" English 151, "The 19th-Century English Novel;" and English 181, "Narration in the Novel." Edgar Rosenburg, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, has been named to teach English 151.