COMM 194 - Honors Oral Communication

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Cross-Listed With: HONR 194
Honors Oral Communications focuses on the study of the nature of speech, sound production, and communication process. Classroom activity involves practical experience in the skills of the oral communication process. It provides practice in organizing and presenting speeches for various purposes, including persuasion. The class critically analyzes the process of community and investigates how the mediums of communication and language are used, manipulated, controlled, and re-invented by this process. Aristotelian principles of rhetoric will be applied to contemporary controversial issues, identified and analyzed by students. This course replaces general education requirement COMM 110.