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...purely writing-oriented class, instructor roles, as well as student expectations, would become much more clearly defined. The objective of improving the student's writing would not be clouded by long reading assignments within a particular discipline. I finished my Expos 12 course feeling I had taken a medicore seminar in the history of science, not an intensive writing course...
Writing instructors could equally profit from such changes. Setting a clear dichotomy between the expository writing instructor and the discipline-specific writing instructor would create separate standards for each. In the first semester, the course could adopt a lecture format combined with weekly personal tutorials. The seminar-style classes in use discourages the instructor from really leading the class; the lecture format would permit him or her to play a greater role...
Prospects for women in business and politics are better than ever, best-selling author Patricia Aburdene told a crowd of 40 at a seminar last night at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...Eyes on the Prize creator Henry Hampton, is the predictable things it doesn't do. No obligatory, year-by-year chronicle of the economic disaster, replete with awful statistics; the few that are thrown in (the unemployment rate reached 25% in 1933) are awful enough. No windy political-science seminar on the strategies of Roosevelt's New Deal; the emphasis is not on Washington but on the fabric of life in the country, from breadlines and Hoovervilles to race riots and violent labor-management confrontations. Nor, perhaps most refreshingly, is there much nostalgic reveling in the decade's pop culture...
...Victorian seminar centered around the significance and roots of Dracula, beginning with Bram Stoker's 1890s novel and continuing through Todd Browning's 1930s film creation...