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...Harvard and as a citizen (those very few courses actually prerequisite to study in professional schools or to success in the business world naturally have an additional function). Extracurricular activities provide ample opportunity for devotion to other matters. One effect of the proposal would be to render the extracurricular curricular, thus undermining the curriculum. For these reasons, the proposal strikes me as anti-academic, even anti-intellectual. PETER J. BURGARD Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 15, 2006 The writer is a Professor of German...
...generation, however, the use of the words “like” and “um” predominates, and even at Harvard many students struggle to speak articulately. Yet public speaking is almost completely absent from the curriculum. The Faculty should make public speaking a high curricular priority...
...curricular review is the perfect opportunity to do something about this epidemic. The Faculty seems ready to adopt the premise espoused by the Task Force on General Education—that Harvard must educate global citizens for the 21st century. It is difficult to see how the College might be able to accomplish these goals without considering the role of public speaking in general education. Yet, public speaking was only mentioned once in the Task Force’s report—in the context of expository writing—and no concrete recommendations were made on how to incorporate...
Fortunately, the curricular review’s Committee to Review the Teaching of Writing and Speaking made recommendations to remedy the situation. The committee advocated adding course offerings in public speaking, debate, and oral argument and integrating oral assignments and instruction into c urrent courses. The report also advocated hiring professors to teach these courses and the creation of a writing and speaking center to integrate and streamline Harvard’s scattered resources on these subjects...
With faculty debate on the curricular review officially underway, students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) say that they plan to spend the next month gathering opinion on the review from their peers. Undergraduates will be invited to attend dinner discussions with student members of the CUE, according to committee member Tracy E. Nowski ’07. Students will meet in small groups with the committee twice in December for a total of three hours to create “continuous conversations” between undergraduates and CUE members, Nowski said. “You can barely scratch...