Course Description
This course focuses on developing the skills needed for giving public speeches. Students will plan,prepare,and deliver speeches to praise,to inform,and to persuade their audience.The course teaches public speaking as a process,paying particular attention to topic selection,research,organization and transitions,claims and supporting evidence,argumentation and delivery.This course will help students develop their public speaking skills in a variety of contexts and help them overcome "stage-fright"inhibition through multiple and varied activities.We will also practice body politics,flow,delivery,timing,rapport and language.The students will develop speeches alone and in groups and learn how to use visual aids.There will be oral and written assignments and assessments.The nature of the presentations and speeches will be of an increasingly complex nature,executed through scaffold activities that will be monitored through summative professor,peer and self-evaluations.
Basic Information
Category :
LTRC&COMM
Enrollment start date :
2024 Summer
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