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“The focus was much less on Expos than on writing at Harvard,” Sommers says. “The existing Expos class is not being questioned.”
One requirement, however, that has boiled students’ blood since 1872 will not disappear in 2004—the Expository Writing requirement. But even Expos may receive a face lift.
In an interview last month, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby discussed the potential for expanding Expos to cover that second fundamental skill.
While students concentrating in the humanities or social sciences often have substantial writing assignments during their sophomore tutorials, people involved with the review of Expos say that science students often end up with less writing experience.
“We’d like to see resources in place for science concentrators and for students who don’t write senior theses to make sure that Expos the freshman year isn’t the last experience they really have to work on their writing...