Prerequisites:
Advisory: Eligibility for English 1500 or 1501 strongly recommended;
Description:
CRN 5550 - 1511 - 40 48 hours lecture. 96 Outside-of-class hours. (144 Total Student Learning Hours) 3 Units | Theory and techniques of public speaking in democratic society. Discovery, development, and criticism of ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, presentation, and evaluation of several types of speeches including informative and persuasive speeches. C-ID: COMM 110
Transferable:
Transferable to both UC and CSU
Repeatability:
Non-Repeatable Credit
General Education:
Local General Education Pattern
Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) ( Area 1.C
CSU General Education Breadth ( A.1 Oral Communication )
C-ID ( Communication Studies )
With careful study and participation, at the end of this course you will be able to:
SLO #1: Analyze a situation in order to organize and deliver speeches for any occasion (informative, demonstrative, persuasive, special occasion)
SLO #2: Use voice, body movement, and eye contact appropriately to deliver speeches that are read, recited, extemporaneous, and/or impromptu
SLO #3: Prepare and appropriately use visual aids.
The text for our class is integrated into our Canvas shell, no activation code is required. We are using chapters from two different free-online textbooks:
You will be able to view the text on Canvas, download it to access it offline or load it to your Google Drive and access it online.
Practice with the technologies we will use in class
1. Make sure you can access your Taft Google Drive.
Canvas→ Our Course → Google Drive
2. Make sure you can access our class Canvas.
3. Download the Canvas App to your phone so you can access our class on your phone.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
-Maya Angelou