SPEECH 102 — Advanced Public Speaking
Advanced theory and practice of oral communication in public speaking in speaker-audience situation; discussion of psychological effects of speech techniques, choice of words, attitudes, and structuring; role of speech in gaining consensus in a confrontation of the rhetoric of agitation and control; studies of outside speakers from personal viewing, television viewing, and examination of speech texts, argumentative techniques used in the persuasive speech. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course.