The course focuses upon developing speaking, verbal and nonverbal communication, and listening skills through individual assignments, presentations, demonstrations/role-playing, and other projects.

This course provides a series of experiences that will aid in improving the ability to communicate orally in real-life situations. Emphasis will be on class discussions and various methods of presentations.

The traditional rhetorical concepts of material, organization, delivery, creativity and persuasion. The student is expected to put into practice each one of the concepts by giving a variety of speeches.