To provide opportunities for developing basic public speaking skills. Lecture, discussion, laboratory approach, peer evaluation and peer teaching, analysis and criticism of public speech texts. This course is designed to cover the same course content as the regular public speaking sections, but there will be additional emphasis upon creating assignments which help students who experience pronounced communication apprehension. The course is taught periodically. There is no prerequisite.
Emphasis is on critical assessment of public speaking.
Opportunities for performance are provided. Lecture, discussion, peer evaluation, videotape, attending off campus speeches. Written analyses and critiques, peer evaluations, examinations. Survey of Film History Listed as Theatre 318. Lecture, discussion, peer evaluation.