| Argumentation and Debate |
SPCH 20 |
- Students will be more argumentative.
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will perform in front of a live audience.
- Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
- Students will become less verbally aggressive.
- Students will critique an argument.
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Argumentation and Debate - Honors |
SPCH 20H |
- Students will be more argumentative.
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will perform in front of a live audience.
- Students will use multiple electronic resources to conduct research.
- Students will become less verbally aggressive.
- Students will critique an argument.
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Forensics: Contest Speech and Debate |
SPCH 15 |
- Students will feel more confident
- Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication
- Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament.
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Forensics: Debate Team |
SPCH 17 |
- Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will become more argumentative.
- Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
- Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication
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Forensics: Individual Event Team |
SPCH 16 |
- Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication.
- Students will record their performances on video and review their own and others' performances to enhance their understanding of performance events and evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses as speakers.
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Forensics: Readers Theater Team |
SPCH 18 |
- Students will perform for a live audience.
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will collaborate to stage and perform multiple selections of literature as a group.
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Fundamentals of Communication |
SPCH 2 |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others
- Students will perform three speeches
- Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
- Students will evaluate their self concept
- Students will solve a problem as a group.
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Gateway to Communication Studies |
SPCH 30 |
- Students will synthesize theoretical communication studies and draw conclusions.
- Students will illustrate competence in research in the communication field.
- Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior.
- Students will conduct research using a communication database.
- Students will evaluate theoretical components of communication theories.
- Students will construct a literature review on one aspect of communication studies.
- Students will assess various areas of the communication field and choose one specific area for further study.
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Intercultural Communication |
SPCH 7 |
- Students will examine the relationship between communication and culture.
- Students will evaluate their own intercultural competencies
- Students will demonstrate cultural sensitivity in conflict management
- Students will examine cultural factors that influence perceptions.
- Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior.
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will define culture.
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Intercultural Communication - Honors |
SPCH 7H |
- Students will examine the relationship between communication and culture.
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will define culture.
- Students will evaluate their own intercultural competencies
- Students will demonstrate cultural sensitivity in conflict management
- Students will examine cultural factors that influence perceptions.
- Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior.
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Interpersonal Communication |
SPCH 26 |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will demonstrate meaningful self-evaluation related to increasing their lifelong personal well being.
- Students will improve their interpersonal listening skills.
- Students will be able to formulate suitable conflict management strategies for interpersonal conflict.
- Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
- Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior.
- Students will evaluate their self concept.
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Interpersonal Communication - Honors |
SPCH 26H |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will evaluate their self concept.
- Students will demonstrate meaningful self-evaluation related to increasing their lifelong personal well being.
- Students will improve their interpersonal listening skills.
- Students will be able to formulate suitable conflict management strategies for interpersonal conflict.
- Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
- Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior.
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Oral Interpretation of Literature |
SPCH 4 |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will perform in front of a live audience.
- Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
- Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
- Students will be able to classify literature into the poetry, drama or prose genre
- Students will construct a program of literature that advances an argument.
- Students will be able to edit a text for performance.
- Students will be able to compose an original introduction for a literary selection.
- Students will identify the central theme of a literature selection.
- Students will evaluate performances of literature using an appropriate critical framework.
- Students will express subtext of written literature.
- Students will critique videotaped performances of their literature performances using an appropriate theoretical framework.
- Students will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
- Demonstrate effective use of voice, body, facial expressions, focal points, emphasis, and integration of manuscript during performance
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Professional and Organization Speaking |
SPCH 8 |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others
- Students will conduct an employment interview.
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Professional and Organizational Speaking - Honors |
SPCH 8H |
- Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others
- Students will feel more confident.
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Public Speaking |
SPCH 1A |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will be able to evaluate the reliability of information sources
- Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others.
- Students will utilize appropriate speech organization.
- Students will deliver an organized verbal response to a prompt with little to no preparation time.
- Students will be able to articulate an argument with reasoning and support.
- Students will create full-sentence outlines using appropriate, credible research sources and attribution.
- Students will speak extemporaneously (with minimal notes).
- Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
- Students will perform five speeches.
- Students will evaluate the reliability of information sources.
- Students will write formal speech outlines.
- Students will be able to perform basic speech delivery skills
- Students will critically evaluate public speeches.
- Students will create and effectively utilize visual aids
- Students will reduce communication apprehension.
- Students will enjoy public speaking.
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Public Speaking - Honors |
SPCH 1AH |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will be able to perform basic speech delivery skills.
- Students will critically evaluate public speeches.
- Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others.
- Students will utilize appropriate speech organization.
- Students will deliver an organized verbal response to a prompt with little to no preparation time.
- Students will be able to articulate an argument with reasoning and support.
- Students will create full-sentence outlines using appropriate, credible research sources and attribution.
- Students will speak extemporaneously (with minimal notes).
- Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
- Students will perform five speeches
- Students will create and effectively utilize visual aids.
- Students will enjoy public speaking.
- Students will evaluate the reliability of information sources.
- Informative revelation speech outline with in-text citations and MLA works cited.
- Informative revelation speech performance.
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Small Group Communication |
SPCH 6 |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
- Students will solve a problem as a group.
- Students will facilitate a group decision-making process.
- Students will perform a group presentation in front of a live audience.
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Special Projects in Speech |
SPCH 99 |
- SLOs will be defined in an independent study contract for the course.
- SLOs will be defined in an independent study contract for the course.
- Students will plan informative meetings for Communication Majors
- Students will create and distribute marketing material for the Communication Major meetings
- Students will act as emcee of the Communication Major meetings
- Students will feel more confident in their leadership abilities.
- Students will feel more confident in their event planning abilities
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Voice and Diction |
SPCH 3 |
- Students will feel more confident.
- Students will perform in front of a live audience.
- Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
- Students will be able to produce language with appropriate breathing skills.
- Students will be able to use phonemes.
- Students will demonstrate vocal expressiveness.
- Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
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