Document Type
Syllabi
School
CLA
Department
COMM
Course Subject
COMM
Course Number
1110
Course Section
2
Course Title
Public Speaking
Academic Term and Year
Spring 2017
Credits
4.00
Hamline Plan Letter
O
Area of Study
ACCT, BSAN, CSTD, ECON, FIN, GBUS, IBUS, MGMT
Course Description
Goals: To help students gain real-life skills in speaking in public, gain confidence, and enhance their ability to deliver oral presentations; to help students achieve the ability to undertake the research process, reason, and effectively identify what needs to be said in a given situation as well as the best way to say it; to practice the skills of critical listening, critical analysis of arguments, and effective advocacy that can enable students to become more engaged in effective and ethical public discourse. Content: Theories of communication in public settings; factors influencing message creation, construction, and interpretation; utilizing research and evidence in creating effective arguments; adaptation to the communication situation and audience; addressing the diversity of values and viewpoints held by audience members; ethical issues in public communication; factors influencing effective delivery; stagefright. Taught: Annually. Prerequisites: None. Credits: 4
Recommended Citation
Palmerton, Patricia, "COMM1110-02.Public Speaking.Sp17.Palmerton,Patricia" (2017). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 12086.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/12086