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...public meeting of the Curricular Review’s Committee to Review Expository Writing (Expos) provided compelling arguments for the maintenance and improvement of the Expository Writing program at Harvard. One issue that arose at the discussion, however, was the disparate responses from freshmen and seniors about their Expos experiences. While taking the class and soon thereafter, students tend to find great value in the first-year course. By senior year, however, many doubt the applicability of what they learned at the beginning of their college writing careers. The program’s cited faults suggest deeper, more extensive problems...
...beginning of their sophomore year, however, students find themselves in concentrations that often inundate them with esoteric and confusing writing standards that are supposedly unique to that field. One English concentrator even reported at the Curricular Review meeting that he was told in some concentration courses that in order to write well he should “forget everything [he] learned in Expos.” While different disciplines differ in their stylistic expectations, good writing tends to share core elements regardless of the subject...
...public meeting of the Curricular Review’s Committee to Review Expository Writing (Expos) provided compelling arguments for the maintenance and improvement of the Expository Writing program at Harvard. One issue that arose at the discussion, however, was the disparate responses from freshmen and seniors about their Expos experiences. While taking the class and soon thereafter, students tend to find great value in the first-year course. By senior year, however, many doubt the applicability of what they learned at the beginning of their college writing careers. The program’s cited faults suggest deeper, more extensive problems...
...Curricular Review passes in its current form, even fewer undergraduates will be prepared for study abroad. The Review’s general education proposals include eliminating the Foreign Cultures Core requirement in favor of a more general distributional requirement in the humanities and allowing undergraduates to complete two semesters of required of language study after their first year. This means that students could easily leave Cambridge with an even shabbier grasp of the language, history, and culture of the foreign country in which they choose to study, making it even more likely that they will take the path of least...
...kind of international experience, a proposal currently on the table, is not necessarily a bad idea as long as the College is cautious—more cautious than it is now, certainly—about which courses of study at which universities abroad translate into Harvard credit. If the Curricular Review institutionalizes such a requirement, it should focus on getting students abroad during a possible J-term, over the summer, or on students’ own time they take...