Workshop on Public Oral Speaking

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The workshop operates in strict cooperation with other undergraduate degree courses in International Relations. It combines a lecture about how students can and should speak publicly with a practical revision group.

Learning Outcomes

General objective:

- To improve the public communication skills of students in an academic and non-academic, providing them with the tools necessary for oral presentations.

Goals and specific skills:

- To develop oral skills, particularly over the course of classroom participation, while defending their work or whence presenting it in conferences, among other events;

- To develop the capacity to express oneself publicly in formal and informal contexts.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Orator and audience expectations;

- Preparation techniques for oral presentations or interventions;

- How to construct a script;

- Oral argumentation techniques;

- Public communication training within different contexts.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Workshop participation: 20.0%
First version of the Workshop assignment: 30.0%
Final version: 50.0%

Bibliography

DIEKEN, C. Talk Less, Say More: Three Habits to Influence Others and Make Things Happen. Wiley, 2009.

QUBEIN, Nido. How to Be a Great Communicator: In Person, on Paper, and on the Podium. High Point University Press, 2006.

WILLIS, Jane (1996) Speeches and Presentations (Work Matters). Londres: Ward Lock.