Written and oral critique of activity required. Individual study and seminar in selected areas or issues of speech communication. Emphasis on skills of group discussion, leadership, organization, and evaluation. Provides students in forensics the opportunity for supervised participation in the activity in class and in intercollegiate competition. Individual or group instruction conducted in a foreign country.
Participants assess methods for training and consulting.
Introduction to general semantics. Use of informative and persuasive techniques in dyads. Use of speech to influence people in semipublic and private settings. English speech sounds. Principles of rhetorical criticism in critiques of selected, chiefly oral, rhetorical communications.