Students will understand quantitative problems. Students will be able to use a computer. Students will use e-mail and internet applications to work in groups and research speech topics. Students will also be required to word process all formal written assignments. Classroom practice doing web searches and emailing messages.
Students are willing to receive information and respond to it.
Students will learn that knowledge about communication will enhance their abilities to communicate in many environments. Students will practice communicating in dyads, small groups, and in public while giving impromptu speeches, leading discussions, and performing various classroom tasks. Students develop values, organize them into systems, and apply those systems to their private and public lives. Students will learn how to be more effective consumers of communication by critically assessing public speakers, classmates, and noted experts in the field as well as examining the civic and ethical responsibilities of oral communicators. Students will critique their own individual speeches, speeches done by their peers, and by noteworthy historical figures.