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Course: |
COM 115
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Title: | Public Speaking |
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Long Title: | Public Speaking |
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Course Description: | Combines the basic theories of communication with public speech performance skills. Emphasis is on speech preparation, organization, support, audience analysis, and delivery. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Status Notes: | Note: Competencies and Outline entered from Core Transfer |
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| S: Documents. A new course template exists and will be |
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| S: submitted for review. The title may be changed to Public |
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| S: Speaking. |
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Course Notes: | The purpose of the outline is to illustrate components of |
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| C: the course with the order, activities, and proportionate |
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| C: time allocation determined by the individual speech |
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| C: instructor. A minimum of five speech presentations is |
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| C: recommended. |
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Origin Notes: | ACC |
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Status Notes: | Revisions to course descr, comp, & outline 9/18/09 s@ |
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
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FRCC |
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