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...photographs taken at the Abu Ghraib prison reveal American soldiers laughing and taunting naked Iraqis and forcing them into humiliating sexual positions. One photo showed seven naked men piled in a human pyramid; others revealed male prisoners being forced to masturbate and simulate oral sex with each other...
...also believe that feedback and formal instruction in oral communication are effective ways to help students become more confident and compelling speakers. Admittedly, many students have the chance to practice their oratory in section discussions and extracurricular activities. But without specific focus on these skills within the curriculum, practice does not necessarily translate into progress. Those students who are already comfortable speaking tend to speak up while those who are uncomfortable stay silent. By formally integrating the oral component, Expos would help more students learn an essential life skill...
Apart from the addition of oral communication skills, the report rightfully recommends that the College find ways to incorporate writing and oral instruction into students’ education beyond the first year. Indeed, one of the most common complaints about Expos (after lack of consistency in workload, teaching quality and range of options) is that there is little continuity between the writing techniques learned in Expos and the writing techniques required in most courses. The report’s recommended solutions to this problem are vague—emphasizing the end while leaving the means up for discussion. Some proposed...
...effective ways to engender curricular continuity could be achieved through better coordination with concentrations—although we believe the onus should be on the writing program to adapt more so than the concentrations. The report recommends that “concentrations make instruction and feedback on written and oral communication an integral part of the concentration program”—a worthy objective, especially since tutorials, which tend to focus on written and oral instruction, are among students’ premier academic experiences. But not all concentrations, especially engineering and hard sciences, can afford to create tutorials...
Expos is a tradition worth keeping, but it also badly in need of reform. The College is right to envision an oral communication component and to focus on making the program more relevant to the rest of the curriculum. We eagerly await more details about how it intends to complete these tasks...