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Dec 10, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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COMM 111Z Public Speaking Lecture Hours: 4 Credits: 4
COMM 111Z emphasizes developing communication skills by examining and demonstrating how self-awareness, audience, content, and occasion influence the creation and delivery of speeches and presentations.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 or completion of WR 090 with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Recommended: Placement into WR 121Z (or higher), or completion of WR 115 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes: Common Course Numbering Outcomes:
- Develop messages for diverse audiences, purposes, and contexts.
- Identify and utilize skills to manage communication apprehension.
- Deliver and adapt speeches and/or presentations to live audiences.
- Evaluate public speeches, including their own, by identifying aspects of preparation, credibility, logic, and delivery.
Statewide General Education Outcomes:
- Engage in ethical communication processes that accomplish goals.
- Respond to the needs of diverse audiences and contexts.
- Build and manage relationships.
Content Outline
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- Understanding communication and its elements
- Ethical speaking and listening
- Components of a speech
- Steps to planning, preparing and delivering a speech
- Types of public speaking and speeches
- Informative Speaking
- Characteristics of informative speaking
- Types of informative speeches
- Functions of informative speaking
- Analyzing the Speech Situation
- Picking your topic
- Planning for the audience
- Planning for the setting
- Research and Support
- Researching your topic
- Collecting information
- Evaluating information and sources
- Organizing your speech
- Purposes of supporting materials
- Types of supporting materials
- Tests of evidence
- Citing your sources
- Writing Your Speech
- Organizing the body of your speech
- Introducing and concluding your speech
- Outlining your speech
- Using language in your speech
- Delivery Skills for Public Speaking
- Methods of delivery, with extemporaneous mode as the primary, preferred method
- Elements of vocal delivery
- Elements of physical delivery
- Using visual aides
- Brief Overview of Persuasive Speaking
- Types of persuasive speeches
- Types of arguments
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