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2025 Fall

Public Speaking - COM110 Fall 2025


Course
Mary Angiolillo
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Course Contents:
The communication process, listening, impromptu speeches; freeing the voice and body, listening, outlining; personal experience speech; organizational patterns, beginning and ending speeches; delivering another person’s speech from an outline; informative speech; persuasive speaking, appeals, Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs; audience analysis, reasoning with evidence and argument, Monroe pattern for persuasion; effective communication in groups.

Here is the course outline:

1. Session 1 - Introduction

Sep 1

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

2. Session 2 - Communication

Sep 8

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.

3. Session 3 - Personal Experience

Sep 15

We will share and respond to personal experience speeches.

4. Session 4 - Organisation

Sep 22

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

5. Session 5 - Introducing & Concluding

Sep 29

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

6. Session 6 - Informative Presentations

Oct 6

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

7. Session 7 - Demonstrating

Oct 13

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

8. Session 14 - Ted talk analysis

Oct 20

Students analyze Ted talks on communication.

9. Session 8 - Demonstration Presentations

Nov 3

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

10. Session 9 - Demonstration continued

Nov 10

Second half of class presents demonstration speeches

11. Session 10 - Persuasion

Nov 24

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

12. Session 11 - Persuasion continued and Group Discussions

Dec 1

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)

13. Session 12 - Persuasive Presentations

Dec 8

Half of the class will present their persuasive speech.

14. Session 13 - Persuasive presentations continued

Dec 15

Half of the class presents persuasive speeches
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