STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1.   Compare and contrast communication fields including speech communication, interpersonal communication, group communication, organizational communication, mass communication, and intercultural communication.

 2.   Demonstrate understanding of these essential factors in public speaking:  speaker, message, audience, occasion, purpose, and the critical thinking processes related to each.

 3.   Evaluate through critical analysis selected speeches using the following skills: listening, reasoning, and rhetorical criticism.

 4.   Incorporate understanding of these factors into speech performance: source credibility, communication apprehension, and ethics.

 5.   Prepare and deliver a variety of speeches including informative and persuasive speeches before a live, synchronous audience giving feedback to the speaker that demonstrate:  topic selection, audience analysis, organization, academic research strategies and language use.

 6.   Demonstrate understanding of impromptu, extemporaneous, manuscript, and memorized methods of speech delivery.

 7.   Demonstrate understanding of vocal and physical delivery:  pitch, rate, volume, vocal variety, body movement, gestures, eye contact, and facial expressions.

 8.   Demonstrate the ability to select and apply appropriate audio-visual forms of technology.

 9.   Demonstrate an understanding of how writing, conversation, and performance impact public speaking situations.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I. Overview of communication fields

 A. Speech communication

 B. Interpersonal communication

 C. Group communication

 D. Organizational communication

 E. Mass communication

 F. Intercultural communication

 II. Speech communication skills

 A. Critical thinking

 B. Listening

 C. Ethics

 D. Reasoning

 E. Content analysis

 F. Rhetorical criticism

 III. Speaker-related factors

 A. Source credibility

 B. Communication apprehension

 IV. Speech preparation

 A. Topic selection

 B. Audience analysis

 C. Organization

 D. Support/research materials

 E. Language use

 V. Speech delivery methods

 A. Impromptu

 B. Extemporaneous

 C. Manuscript

 D. Memorized

 VI. Vocal and physical delivery

 A. Vocal:  pitch, rate, volume, vocal variety

 B. Physical:  body movement, gestures, eye contact, facial expression

 VII. Appropriate use of technology

 A. Audio

 B. Visual

 VIII. Speech purposes

 A. Informative

 B. Persuasive

 C. Special occasion