COMM 101H - Fundamentals of Public Speaking (Honors)

1. Analyze an audience and adapt presentations accordingly.
2. Apply principles of composition to the development of oral presentations, such as effective organization and outlining.
3. Develop ideas with credible forms of support and appropriate documentation.
4. Recognize and demonstrate nonverbal communication appropriate to the verbal message.
5. Use presentational aids to support and enhance oral presentations.
6. Actively listen to and critically evaluate oral presentations.
7. Apply the fundamental concepts of effective public speaking through a minimum of 4 oral presentations of significance three of which must be delivered extemporaneously.
8. Incorporate appropriate technology to support and enhance oral presentations.
9. Oral presentations will demonstrate advanced skills in analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (at a higher level that the general student population).
10. Oral presentations will demonstrate research that is comprehensive and shows an advanced understanding of research methodologies.
11. Oral presentations will demonstrate that the student is engaging in complex issues which expose them to diverse ideas, peoples, and to interdisciplinary ways of thinking that develop and enhance their critical thinking skills and promote continuous learning outside the classroom.
12. Honors student writing demonstrates: focus, organization, support that is documented according to expectations, evidence of above-average critical thinking, and attention to rhetorical situations.

• Communication models - elements
• Ethics and public speaking
• Listening
• Selecting a topic and purpose
• Analyzing the audience and assessing the situation
• Researching the speech topic
• Supporting materials and tests of evidence
• Using presentational aids
• Speech introductions and conclusions
• Organizing the body of speech
• Oral and written source citation
• Outlining the speech
• Presenting the speech - language and delivery modes
• Speaking to inform
• Speaking to persuade
• Using technology
• Common fallacies
• International Communication
• Mediated communication
• Major rhetorical scholars and their theories
• Advanced research methods