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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 17, July 19, 1976.

Work Covered in Class

Work Covered in Class

The inadequacy of this timetable is clearly illustrated when one considers that the average length of a refferat was 45 minutes (this does not include question time, handing out pamphlets, putting up diagrams etc.) 17 students obviously needed 1 hour (and were told at the beginning of the course that they would be given 1 hour) each to deliver their refferat. The total course time was 26 hours (13 weeks of a 2 hour class per week) leaving only 9 hours for the study of a difficult play, short stories and extracts - clearly a ludicrous situation. Eight double classes and I ordinary class should have been allocated for the refferata. The first refferat should have been given on 15-3-76 (not 12-4-76) and the last on 24-5-76 each double class being devoted solely to refferatta. The cramming of 4 refferatta into 2 hours forced students to rush through their material, discouraged questions (the lecturer managed to find time for a 15 minute monologue at the end of each talk), and some students were cut off in mid - sentence with "excuse me - would you finish now please."