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Sep 07, 2024
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CMST& 220 - Public Speaking Credits: 5 Introduction to public speaking that helps students develop confidence and competence in addressing diverse audiences in community and professional settings. Students compose and deliver speeches, as well as evaluate others’ presentations. Emphasizes choice and organization of material, sound reasoning, audience analysis, and delivery.
Enrollment Requirement: Eligible for ENGL& 101 or instructor consent.
Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English Course Fee: $1.00
Course Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
- Deliver an extemporaneous, audience-centered persuasive speech from speaker’s notes based off a researched outline.
- Deliver an extemporaneous, audience-centered informative speech from speaker’s notes based off a researched outline.
- Explain the ethical, emotional, and logical appeals of speeches and speakers.
- Apply the listening skills of an ethical audience member.
- Evaluate contemporary methods of public speaking such as TED talks, Zoom presentations, special occasion speeches, digital media presentations, sermons, etc.
Program Outcomes
- Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.
- Use, synthesize or produce needed information ethically.
- Form, analyze, and assess beliefs while demonstrating intellectual humility and respect towards the beliefs of others.
College-wide Outcomes
- Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
- Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
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