Professional Speech Communication

Catalog description

This is an intensive fourteen-week course designed to give students practice creating and then delivering some of the most common types of speeches or presentations that a mid-level career professional might be called upon to make in the course of their employment. In addition, students will build and apply key pronunciation and pragmatics strategies to improve their intelligibility. Students will be required to speak every other week of the class. Students will be required to revise their work in response to weekly feedback from the instructor and from the student’s peers. Students will also be exposed to various computer-based presentation tools in this course. Note: This course is NOT applicable to the Communication Studies major, to the Business Communication/Corporate Communication major, or to the Communication Studies minor.