Course Description:
This course provides the student with training and experience in researching, organizing and presenting various types of oral presentations. Topics covered include audience analysis, speech organization, delivery techniques, and the use of sensory aids. Narrative, informative, and special-occasion presentations are required. The instruction in this class, in large portion, comes through discussion with the class and the instructor regarding specific speeches the student will deliver.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Comprehend public presentation, including its assumptions, methods, and terminology.
- Employ techniques of active listening, critical listening, and informal listening and responding within a public forum for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
- Communicate effectively in oral modes and use written and oral skills as tools of inquiry.
- Find, evaluate, and use information in a way that is appropriate to public speaking.
- Discuss how public speaking is used within a student’s particular major field.
- Be prepared for more advanced work in the Core, thus experiencing the Core as an integrated whole through building oral presentation skills and developing new ways of listening, speaking, and thinking.
