Renato Poggioli, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, will teach a new course in Dante next year, Wilbur M. Frohock, chairman of the department, announced recently. This course, filling up the gap in Italian Literature courses created by the retirement of Charles M. Singleton, Professor of Romance Literature, last June, is one of three new courses planned in the department.

Spanish intellectual history and the relation between French literature and art are the subjects of these courses in connection with which several professorial appointments will soon be announced, pending a vote by the Board of Overseers.

Frohock indicated that the department will be watching closely the success of the new concentrated German half course to be given in January of next year. If the course is successful, the same kind of thing may be tried in the Romance Languages, he added.

CEP Report Supported

Commenting on the CEP report, Frohock stated that if the faculty passes it, "the chief effect will be to push us in the direction in which we have been going already." Last year the department started sophomore tutorial and tutorial for credit, "and we plan to continue these again next fall." The Chicago Tribune in the recent survey of Harvard implied that the department was not outstanding in all aspects.

Frohock believes Dean Elder's recommending changes on the graduate level will have no immediate effect on graduate study in the Romance Languages, because "these things frequently grind on for quite a while." He added that, in his opinion, "it will cause considerable change in a few years."