Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual Communication
Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual Communication
Course Design Materials
Course Design Materials
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Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual Communication Learning Outcomes
Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual Communication Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this Core component will be able to:
Analyze oral and visual messages and arguments and their implications from multiple and contradictory perspectives
Critically examine how identity, values and diverse cultural contexts shape and inform oral and visual communication
Prepare and deliver well-organized, well-supported, and audience-appropriate oral and visual messages and arguments
Collaborate effectively within a group communication experience
Reflect on the ways in which rhetorically proficient oral and visual communication contributes to ethical public discourse
University Core Learning Outcomes
University Core Learning Outcomes
Eloquentia Perfecta: Written and Visual courses must be directed toward achievement of their Core component learning outcomes in order to introduce and develop the relevant Core SLOs connected to this course in the overall Core design.
SLO 2: All SLU graduates will be able to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions
Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual courses must introduce students to the practice of integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions.
SLO 3: ALL SLU graduates will be able to assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions
Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual courses should introduce students to skills needed to assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions.
SLO 4: ALL SLU graduates will be able to communicate effectively in writing, speech, and visual media.
Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual courses should introduce students to effective oral and visual communication and develop students' ability to communicate effectively in writing, speech, and visual media.
SLO 5: ALL SLU graduates will be able to analyze how diverse identities influence their lives and the lives of others.
Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual courses should introduce students to and help students develop the ways in which diverse identities influence their lives and the lives of others.
SLO 8: ALL SLU graduates will be able to collaborate with others toward a common goal.
Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual courses should introduce students to collaborating with others toward a common goal.
Essential Criteria
Essential Criteria
EP 2 Final Approved Core Overview.pdfInstructors without prior experience teaching equivalent courses must receive training in best practices in oral
communication pedagogy prior to teaching this course. All instructors will be provided with appropriate
pedagogical orientation as needed and as determined by the Associate Director for Eloquentia Perfecta: Oral and Visual Communication
All sections must be taught at a 20:1 student/instructor ratio (per standards for public speaking courses set by
national professional organizations, e.g., National Communication Association [NCA])
Oral and visual communication instruction must be central to the course, with formal and informal assignments
spread throughout the term
Students must have the opportunity to develop oral and visual communication through multiple stages of invention and revision
Students must have the opportunity to reflect critically upon the ways that diverse cultural contexts as well as
identity and values shape oral and visual communication
Additional Course Design Resources
Additional Course Design Resources
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