THTR 11400 - Interpretation For Performance And Presentation

Students will enhance their communication skills by analyzing selections from prose, poetry, and drama and exploring them through oral presentation. In addition to learning methods of creating a variety of specific texts, a mixture of vocal and physical techniques will be examined, adapted and practiced in order to better present material to a diverse population.

Cr. 3.
Notes
Indiana Core Transfer Library course.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Use appropriate organization or logical sequencing to deliver an oral message.
2. Adapt an oral message for diverse audiences, contexts, and communication channels.
3. Identify and demonstrate appropriate oral and nonverbal communication practices.
4. Advance an oral argument using logical reasoning.
5. Provide credible and relevant evidence to support an oral argument.
6. Demonstrate the ethical responsibilities of sending and receiving oral messages.
7. Summarize or paraphrase on oral message to demonstrate comprehension.
8. Analyze a variety of texts.
9. Develop a greater appreciation for the art of speaking in public.
10. Explore techniques and develop skills that can be used and/or adapted to a variety of career paths. These skills include, but are not limited to, physical communication/gesture and vocal quality and vocal variety (pitch, tempo, phrasing, vocal energy, diction, etc.).