Persuasive Speech

Catalog description

This performance-based course focuses on persuasive communication skills. Borrowing proficiencies typically developed for the theatre and applying them in a legal context, students gain increased confidence in communicating and advocating in the courtroom or ADR setting by developing such skills as: pacing, use of gestures, voice projection, voice modulation, and body positioning. Students are on their feet speaking to an audience (the class) each day of class.