This course is required of all students at Dalton State College. There are three instructors in Communication studies. At the present time I am the only instructor that has the entire course on line. All lecture notes and assignments are included on this site along with links to other sources on the web. This is a course in the basic principles of effective oral communication.
Emphasis is placed upon speeches used in business, educational, and political activities.
Special attention is given to informative and persuasive extemporaneous speeches. This unit will emphasize both verbal and non-verbal cues that influence an audience by controling and integrating physical behavior and vocal variety. This unit will emphasize introducing, organizing and concluding a speech. Special attention will be paid to those factors that make a speech interesting. All speeches for this unit will be made using PowerPoint technology.