Basic Course Information
Fundamental information about your Fundamentals of Speech class.
Instructor Information
- an alumnus of Kentucky Christian College
- Address: KCC Box 2009
- Phone: 474-3135
- Office: look for me in the former guest house behind the Library.
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Course Description
From the 1998-2000 KCC catalog: "This course equips students to prepare and present short informative and persuasive speeches. The selection and organization of material, methods of securing interest and attention, and elements of delivery will be emphasized."
Required Course Materials
There are several resources that you will be responsible for acquiring and using during the semester:
1. Textbook: Ulloth, Dana and Richard Alderfer. Public Speaking: An Experiential Approach. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998.
2. Infotrac: Packaged with your textbook is a means of access to Infotrac. This is an online research utility. This will help you do research on the Internet.
3. Internet Access: You will be expected to become proficient in Internet research and in forwarding assignments through email. You will need to have access to the Internet, either through the public terminals on campus or through a personal account with the school. As part of your Internet access, you need to have an email account that is capable of sending and receiving file attachments.
4. Microsoft PowerPoint access: You will be using this presentation software in assignments and in your speeches. You must have access to the software either through a computer account you have paid for on campus or you may use your personal copy of the software, should you own it.
5. Booklet: To assist you in using PowerPoint software, a booklet outlining the features and how to use them is part of your class resources.
6. VHS cassette: In an effort to enable better self-evaluation, some of your speeches will be taped for you to review and critique on your own.
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Course Objectives and Direction
The objectives for this course are rooted in the "canons" of classical rhetoric. Rhetoric is the study of communication and persuasion through the artful use of language that dates back to Ancient Greece and Rome. These canons include five areas of presenting public speeches:
1. Invention: This refers to the process of choosing an appropriate topic and identifying
the range of relevant ideas and available evidence.
Goal: This class should assist you in properly gathering and organizing information to provide logical, sound and well-documented support for the ideas you present.
2. Disposition: This refers to the process of analyzing your audience and properly arranging your ideas in a clear and memorable sequence.
Goal: This class should assist you in clearly organizing your speech information into a structured speaking outline.
3. Elocution: This refers to the style of language used to clothe the speaker's ideas.
Goal: This class should assist you in presenting your ideas with appropriate language use and recognizing what language choices to make in distinct types of speeches.
4. Memory: This refers to the use of our mental process of recall.
Goal: This class should assist you in presenting your ideas from recall. You should be able to present your speech with a focus on the audience rather than on notes.
5. Pronunciation: This word classically refers to the process of delivery.
Goal: This class should assist you in effectively delivering a speech with proper use of voice, gestures, and visual aids.
Additional goals that fit within these framing objectives, but offer a more contemporary application, will be to communicate well with whatever means are at our disposal. In addition to speaking, you will be expected to become proficient in using the Internet for research and email for conveying written material. An accompanying goal for this course will be to assist you in becoming better consumers of the messages you are exposed to every day and to be better critical listeners and thinkers, discerning good from bad arguments and presentation. These goals will be accomplished through public speaking opportunities, written assignments, critiquing the speeches of others and through discussion of textbook information in class and on paper.
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