Note: THIS COURSE CANNOT BE TAKEN REMOTELY. We will go through course expectations and briefly introduce ourselves. We will do some exercises in "immediacy."

We will explore the communication process in an interactive way. Class members will give speeches introducing each other, prepared in class. Personal experience speeches are assigned for next week.

We will share and respond to personal experience speeches.

We will explore organizational patterns that work for giving informative speeches. Impromptu speeches will be made in small groups to illustrate these.

We will explore techniques for making introductions and conclusions. The first test will be given.

We will present informative speeches to each other, teaching each other about something that we didn't already know.

We will prepare for demonstration speeches in class, examining how to use presentational aids.

We will present demonstration speeches in class, teaching how to do or make something; or showing how something works using visual aids

Second half of class presents demonstration speeches

We will explore persuasion, examining how it works and looking closely at the Monroe Motivated sequence organization pattern for persuasive speeches.

Persuasion continued. We will look at examples of persuasive speeches. We will role play positive and negative roles one can hold in group discussions. Test on chapters 10, 11, 14, 15 (chapters on presentational aids, delivery, and the two chapters on persuasion)

Half of the class will present their persuasive speech.

Persuasive speeches presented. Tedtalk assignment explained and modeled.

Students analyze Ted talks on communication.