Public Speaking Course

This course is designed to help the students prepare and deliver purposive speaking skills in the public both prepared and impromptu speeches. This course is mainly performance-based class activities, namely performing speeches, classroom discussions, speech analysis, and constructing speech matrices. This course covers some major competencies, eg the nature of prepared and impromptu speeches, stages of the speech-making process, verbal and non-verbal communication techniques, speech analysis through matrices, and effective presentation aids. By the end of the course, students are expected to have 5-7 speeches (informative speech, demonstrative speech, and persuasive speech) about selected topics.