Introduction to Public Speaking - Honors

Catalog description

In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience, and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches. This is an honors course. The honors course provides more content and requires greater intensity and depth of study than the non-honors class. Formerly COMM 101H (UC, CSU, AVC) Note: Students may take either COMM C1000 Introduction to Public Speaking or COMM C1000H Introduction to Public Speaking - Honors. Duplicate credit will not be awarded. This honors course is intended for students in the Honors Transfer Program.