Public Speaking 101
What you'll learn
- A professor gives you the Seven Steps you need to give a great speech for business & personal presentations.
- The complete speech making process and how to deliver a good speech by using your voice and body language.
- How to deal with your fear and stage fright (hint: do you like movies?)
Requirements
- Anyone can take this course; no prior knowledge of speech making is needed.
- Be prepared to watch well produced audio/visual lectures.
- Do discussion questions and occasional quizes.
- View both good and bad sample speeches for evaluation.
Description
This course emphasizes the strategies for planning, developing, and delivering oral presentations. As a professor at four colleges and universities in the United States, I'm happy to provide you my experience of 26 years of teaching by offering you this course.
In taking this course, the successful student will:
Learn the complete speechmaking process.
Develop his/her ability to select topics and deliver speeches according to the occasion, the audience, and the speaker.
Demonstrate ability to research information & evaluate evidence.
Exhibit increased self-confidence in public and interpersonal communication situations by reducing speech anxiety.
Show expanded facility in constructing arguments.
Demonstrate proficiency with the elements of oral style and effective delivery.
Apply fundamentals of listening.
Assess different types of audiences and learn how to analyze such audiences.
Utilize wording, style, argument, and delivery to connect with audience members.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in learning the speechmaking process, including how to cope with the fear of public speaking.
Course content
- Preview03:55
- 1 questionOpportunities to apply what you’re learning are given in Section 16
- Preview09:51
- 1 questionDiscussion Question
- 5 questionsSection 1 Quiz
Instructor
![Dale Ingham](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Dale has a unique educational background and experience in the field of communications. He has worked in radio as an on-air news director and disc jockey, a videographer for a weekly local television program, has produced commercials for cable-TV. His own state-of-the-art, video/film production company produced his first feature, the romantic-thriller, Seduction of Innocence, in the 1990s.
As professor of communication, Dale has been teaching since October 1993; he teaches courses at several colleges and universities, including public speaking, art of film, and writing courses.
Dale enjoys fine dining, sporting events—especially baseball—thoroughbred horse racing, driving his Mustang convertible, attending musical theater, and of course, movies.
Dale is included in the 2001 edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World.