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Professor of Physics John E. Huth, who is chair of the physics department and a member of the Core program’s Subcommittee on Expository Writing, says that public speaking could be better taught across the curriculum and not just in one first-year course...
...We’re recommending that courses develop parallel training in public speaking, oral presentation, and we look at pedagogically imaginative ways for students to develop these skills, like implementing mini-conferences at the end of the courses, staging debates, [and] requiring short polished presentations,” Huth says. “Like the work on writing, we see this as something that can be infused, or injected into courses that are already at Harvard...
While the curricular review is set to promote writing across the curriculum and recommend that public speaking be integrated along with writing instruction, Huth says that the Expos discussions have not been contentious...
...judgment call,” Huth says. “I hope we all have some degree of good taste...
...Generally it’s amicable, but when it’s not consultative it can be ugly,” Huth says of the process of easing into retirement...