This course is designed to introduce the students the principles, practices, and concepts of speaking for debate. This course is mainly performance-based class activities with the major amount of class time is spent on public presentations, group interactions, and formal argument, persuasion, and debate practices. This course covers 1) lectures of introducing students of proficiency in public speaking and eloquence; 2) discussion about debating, debating theories and formats e.g. Australasian, Asian, and British Parliamentary debate formats, constructive argumentation and the development of argumentative competence; and 3) debating performance and how to judge/adjudicate debate.
