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AFTER ALL the controversy surrounding the Faculty Council's rejection last week of a proposal to change the Expository Writing program, next year's Expos program emerges looking bad. All lower-level Expos courses next year will spend all but two weeks studying two required texts--a style handbook and...
This new textbook-style Expos program probably won't accomplish much besides making Expos drudgery for its students next year. And it's unlikely that the standardized program will attract teachers with imagination and independence.
One of the reasons behind the new high-school approach to Expos is a lack of money. If all Expos classes are the same, the reasoning goes, they'll also all be the same size--so the Expos program will no longer include huge, popular classes as well as small...
There are two good ways to solve Expos's problems. Dean Rosovsky should try to increase the Expos budget so that all classes will have 15 students or less. And the Faculty Council should recommend the elimination of the current two-track system. At present, the students who presumably need...
Expos is--and should continue to be--Harvard's only required class, so it's especially important the the program not be allowed to slide for another year. The Expos program needs more money, an open curriculum and the abolition of distinctions based on test scores as soon as possible...