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The Fast Track is a six-week program for a select, limited group of Policy Project participants, led by Ross Smith, Wake Forest's debate coach. Students get the full benefits of the Wake Forest Policy Project, plus the chance to work closely with successful college and high school coaches.
In the 1990's, Ross Smith has qualified more teams to the National Debate Tournament Elimination Rounds and has had more top-sixteen ranked teams than any other coach this decade. He was named national judge of the decade and was second ranked nationally as college coach of the decade.
Applicants should have prior workshop experience, a demonstrated record of success, and the motivation and expectation to excel combined with debate experience which will allow them to comprehend and utilize this unique opportunity. Ross will be assisted by Adrienne Brovero and Jane Munskgaard.
Dates: June 17 – July 28, 2007
Tuition (including room & board): $4200
Select, Egalitarian Student Body
We seek students with experience, talent, and motivation, students with whom we can share our passion for policy debate. In combination with the small size, and great faculty, we can assure every student of "first class" treatment.
Superior Staff
Every faculty member is a practicing debate coach from the highest ranks of both high school and college debate. More than half have high-level high school coaching experience as well as college experience. The faculty has experience not only teaching at Dartmouth, Northwestern Coon-Hardy, and the Michigan Classic, but also designing the curricula at those workshops.
Best Combination of Facilities
When you spend four intense weeks working on debate, you want to do it with the fewest unnecessary hindrances. The library at Wake Forest welcomes debaters and is open to them at all library hours. The lab rooms are computer accessible, air-conditioned, state-of-the-art classrooms with tables. The cafeteria, dorm, library, and classrooms are all air-conditioned, all in the same quadrangle of the gorgeous Wake Forest campus. All rooms on campus, including the dorms, have wireless internet access. The classrooms, dorms, library and cafeteria are all within a five minute walk of each other.
Wake Forest Innovations
8-3-5 time limits (it used to be 8-3-4), modern counterplan theory, workshop-wide assignments and cooperation all have been modeled, and we are flattered. Nonetheless, we continue to refine, innovate, and push the curve forward. We call this workshop a "Project", partly to reflect the notion that we are dedicated to an ongoing enterprise of improvement. Moreover, this workshop really expresses the "team" and "community" effort of debate: all lab evidence is shared by the whole workshop so that all students can debate knowledgeably by the end of the four weeks at Wake Forest University and will be more than adequately prepared to begin their competitive seasons back at home.
Balanced Curriculum
In addition to labs, we have special affirmative and negative research groups, seminars in theory, special forums on issues of interest, at least eight practice debates prior to the tournament, and a well balanced, limited set of lectures (you will not be lectured to death, or to sleep).
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