Advanced Public Speaking

                                                                                             Professor - Joseph Tabarlet, Ph.D.


Text: Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric by Howard Kahane and Nancy Cavender

Course Objective: The primary objective of this course is to enable each
student to improve in his or her demonstration of advanced speaking skills.

Requirements:

The student is to read the assigned text as directed and to participate in
discussions. Topics to be covered in class discussions are as follows: beliefs, values,
world-views, fallacious reasoning, cogent reasoning, psychological impediments to sound reasoning, language, and extended arguments.

The student is to hand to the professor an outline of his or her speech on the day of
delivery.

The student is to prepare and deliver speeches in the following categories: informative, technical, persuasive, and inspirational. (The informative speech is to
outline the pros and cons of an issue without attempting to persuade the audience.
The technical speech is to present a technical subject in terms a layman could understand. The persuasion speech is to convey the opponent’s side respectfully. It should cover common ground between the opponent’s side and the student speaker's. )

The student is to take mid-term and final examinations.

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