SPCH

This course provides students the opportunity to develop and/or enhance their public speaking skills with attention to cultural diversity. With a focus on extemporaneous delivery, students will learn to organize, outline, prepare, and deliver introductory, informative, and persuasive speeches. Impromptu, manuscript, group discussion and minimizing stage fright techniques will also be examined.

Subject

SPCH

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

fdltcc.edu

Goal 2: Critical Thinking Goal: To develop thinkers who are able to unify factual, creative, rational, and value-sensitive modes of thought. Critical thinking will be taught and used throughout the general education curriculum in order to develop students’ awareness of their own thinking and problem-solving procedures. To integrate new skills into their customary ways of thinking, students must be actively engaged in practicing thinking skills and applying them to open-ended problems. Students will be able to: • Gather factual information and apply it to a given problem in a manner that is relevant, clear, comprehensive, and conscious of possible bias in the information selected. • Imagine and seek out a variety of possible goals, assumptions, interpretations, or perspectives which can give alternative meanings or solutions to given situations or problems. • Analyze the logical connections among the facts, goals, and implicit assumptions relevant to a problem or claim; generate and evaluate implications that follow from them. • Recognize and articulate the value assumptions which underlie and affect decisions, interpretations, analyses, and evaluations made by ourselves and others. Goal 3: Natural Sciences Goal: To improve students’ understanding of natural science principles and of the methods of scientific inquiry, i.e., the ways in which scientists investigate natural science phenomena. As a basis for lifelong learning, students need to know the vocabulary of science and to realize that while a set of principles has been developed through the work of previous scientists, ongoing scientific inquiry and new knowledge will bring changes in some of the ways scientists view the world. By studying the problems that engage today’s scientists, students learn to appreciate the importance of science in their lives and to understand the value of a scientific perspective. Students should be encouraged to study both the biological and physical sciences. Students will be able to: • Demonstrate understanding of scientific theories. • Formulate and test hypotheses by performing laboratory, simulation, or field experiments in at least two of the natural science disciplines. One of these experimental components should develop, in greater depth, students’ laboratory experience in the collection of data, its statistical and graphical analysis, and an appreciation of its sources of error and uncertainty. • Communicate their experimental findings, analyses, and interpretations both orally and in writing. • Evaluate societal issues from a natural science perspective, ask questions about the evidence presented, and make informed judgments about science-related topics and policies. (Select two courses. One course must have a lab component) (Courses with a lab component)

Subject

SPCH

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

fdltcc.edu

7B Race, Power & Justice AMIN/EDUC 2301 Culturally Responsive Leadership (8) (2) EDUC/AMIN 2301 Culturally Responsive Leadership (8) (2)

Subject

SPCH

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

fdltcc.edu