Word: bate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bate pointed out that because the Department objects to requiring any sort of course whatsoever, it voted down three weeks ago a proposal stipulating that all concentrators take a definite number of upper level survey courses, such as English...
...Bate Criticizes...
...Bate called this view a mistake, and said that "the students had been the ones to pay for it." He pointed out that over half of the concentrators have so little knowledge of literary history--which Hum 6 does not cover--that they are not properly prepared for their generals...
...return to English 10, together with a large increase in the number of upper-level surveys and a memorandum urging all tutors to recommend those courses to their tutees, constitute the Department's attempt to offset the current situation. Bate pointed out that at present many students know so little English literary history that they would be unable to name a single significant author or work in several important 50-year periods...
...reinstating English 10, the Department's normal introductory course, Bate hopes to expose students to a variety of literary periods as well as to perhaps even a dozen different professors. At present, he said, upperclassmen do not have an historical introduction to the field...