TC3 201

Class Overview

This is a performance course which intends to familiarize students with the preparation and delivery of various speeches including informative and persuasive speeches. Students will research, outline and deliver speeches, as well as act as critics of their own, fellow students’, and famous speakers’ work. The course aims to reduce students’ anxiety in public presentations, emphasize speech preparation, enhance public speaking skills, and make students better able to evaluate their own performance and that of others. By the end of the semester, all students should:

1. Become aware of personal speech habits and characteristics. To increase your confidence.

2. Improve posture, voice, diction and other mechanics of speech. Cultivate poise and self-confidence.

3. Develop speech preparation and presentation techniques, audience awareness and self-awareness.

4. Present a variety of speeches (informative, persuasive, demonstrative, special occasion, etc.)

5. Analyze speeches using basic communication theory.

6. Identify the characteristics of valid arguments and ethical discourse.

Below you will find specific details about the course in the posted syllabus.