This course offers training in public speaking that takes an audience-centered approach. It includes the responsibilities of the public speaker addressing the listener, managing nervousness/anxiety through topic selection, audience analysis, speech organization and presentation. Also included are best practices in multimedia aids and discipline-specific considerations. Objectives: A) Create, organize, and deliver audience-centric messages; B) Develop and demonstrate nonverbal speaking behaviors that support verbal messages; C) Present information appropriate to context and setting; D) Differentiate between speech types; E) Interpret and evaluate presentations; F) Evaluate areas for improvement.
- Subject
- MCD
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027 Academic Year Undergraduate Catalog
- Catalog
- 2026-2027 Academic Year Undergraduate Catalog
- Source
- catalog.elmira.edu