The Expose

I'm sitting here, 9:30 am on a Monday, having woken up at 7am to come to my History of Childhood class wishing I was in bed as I am on the struggle bus for the next half hour until class gets out. As I type (yes I am a terrible student) there are two girls giving an expose on Education and Play in Japan: Tradition, the West, and Evolution.

These girls are great, no disrespect in the fact that it is well researched and they are very good presenters, but it is straight forward, bland, and far too over-encompassing. The whole idea of an Expose is the idea that you pick a specific topic within the topic (today's overall topic was Japanese Childhood). However they are seriously talking about EVERYTHING. Their outline for the expose is an entire page long. It is very strange that our professor even lets it happen as it is really her job to give us the overall idea and not for the Expose to suplement the lecture - as in it is basically completing the lecture (she lets them go for about 30-40 minutes). I guess my understanding of the expose is a little narrowed, but at the same time I think the more focused the expose, the more interesting it is.



As I don't feel like explaining the expose, here is another blogger's view on it (not that I whole heartedly agree as she seems to hate them where I think they, when done well, are delightful - as seen in comparison to writing lengthy and annoying essays - but I say this coming off of a semester of only doing exposes in English and she did them in French - aka harder)