Study and practice of effective, audience-centered public speaking. Includes methodology of written and spoken communication.
Prerequisites
Reading proficiency as established by District Policy.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Deliver impromptu speech.
- Deliver an informative speech that is exposition, explanation, demonstration, definition or any combination of these.
- Deliver a persuasive speech/question of policy.
- Create a speaking outline from which the informative speech can be delivered.
- Create a speaking outline from which the persuasive speech can be delivered.
- Survey an audience to gain usable information that will assist the speaker in tailoring the speech to fit the audience.
- Evaluate his/her own speaking effectiveness, and that of peers, and determine why they were, or were not successful.
- Answer questions related to public speaking based on textbook readings and the instructor’s lectures.
- Identify an issue in society and produce an argument defending why it is a contemporary and/or historical societal issue.