Anthropology class overcrowded

Salient Reporter

There are 160 students in Anthropology I. Expected enrolment in this new unit was 50.

To cope with this number the class will be split up into nine tutorials. Professor Pouer and Dr. Joan Metge are the only lecturers but two MA students are to help with tutorials.

"Even so," said Dr. Metge. "It is a new department, and many details have yet to be decided. With such a large class it is hard to know it our methods of teaching will be as effective as they would have been otherwise. The ratio of students to staff is too great to enable us to concentrate as much on individual problems. We are overworked."

Dr. Metge told Salient she thought the large numbers of students enrolling in Anthropology rather than in Political Science, reflected an interest in racial relations, especially in Maori-Pakeha and Eastern-Western problems.