Marc Aronson, a lecturer in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University at New Brunswick and a historian who writes books for young adults, recently suggested that all Ph.D. candidates be required to take a course he calls "Communications." The goal would be to teach Ph.D.'s--both would-be academics and those who will pursue other work--how to talk about what they do to a variety of public audiences. The author suggests that a Ph.D. communications course might bring together students from across a university. Together, they would explore disciplinary and interdisciplinary literacy in their different fields. Learning how to successfully reach multiple audiences is not only a skill--it is also a way of looking at the world that enables individuals to see alternatives to specialization. It is a habit of thinking that provides a necessary counterweight to the default tendency of losing oneself in a narrow field of knowledge.