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Today’s single-semester Expos 10—recommended for students who fall below a certain threshold on the freshman writing test—is a bare bones course without specialized topics, and specifies that students who enroll must also take a Expos 20 the following semester.
According to a Crimson interview with the late former Director of Expository Writing Richard C. Marius, 1985’s Expos 5 was an overhaul of the previous one-on-one tutorial program available for students who performed poorly in their regular fall Expos courses, a system that proved inefficient...
“It was paced more moderately, and was more targeted towards basic grammar and paragraph-building skills than the regular Expos course was,” Buell said. “Faculty accepted it as a transitional class for the less prepared students.”
“And Expos 20 didn’t really do much for me besides practice the techniques I learned in Expos 10,” Regan added.
With recent budget cuts restricting the number of searches authorized across FAS, the school has had to rethink its approach to fostering Harvard’s future faculty—such as a one-time retirement package for older faculty members and a mentorship program for younger faculty.