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Since then the program, commonly known as “Expos,” has expanded to cover different subject areas, such as nature writing or poetry analysis, as well as higher level courses such as a public speaking practicum. Twenty-five years ago, the Faculty approved another expos course to supplement its standard one-term requirement in order to assist “freshman with severe writing problems,” a 1985 Crimson article reported...
...Harvard Speaks” petition and the recent demand for classes that offer instruction in public speaking demonstrate that the student body values this skill. This semester’s Expos 40, “Public Speaking Practicum,” garnered 104 applications for only 12 slots. It seems clear that more Harvard students want to learn the rhetorical craft than Expos 40 and a select number of other related courses can accommodate. Considering the demonstrated and professed interest in oratory instruction, Harvard should expand the number of courses that feature public speaking components. Those that already do?...
...College currently offers a limited selection of courses that focus on public speaking—for example, Expository Writing 40, “Public Speaking Practicum,” is a small seminar course designed to help students practice and improve their oral communication skills...
...Many, it seems, do not view oratorical abilities as a skill that can—or should—be taught. While the Expository Writing department offers Expos 40: Public Speaking Practicum in the spring, it caps the course at only 12, likely reflecting the level of undergraduate demand. Compare this to Expos 20, which Harvard requires every freshman to take. Clearly, the powers that be recognize that incoming students, accomplished and talented as they may be, still benefit from an introduction to Expository Writing. And, despite the yearly complaints, Expos 20 does its job. But while public speaking resources...
...said in an e-mailed statement that he’s planning on requiring “a self-directed outdoor practicum in the phenomenology of place and, with it, a series of informal creative writing assignments...