Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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TC 342 - Professional Presentation Techniques

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
The course is designed to challenge conventional methods of creating and delivering professional presentations. The course incorporates several ground-breaking presentation approaches that have influenced the perceptions of the world’s famous brands and businesses. Through hands-on projects, students will learn how to apply innovative presentation techniques to create influential content, captivating visuals, and dynamic and memorable performances. (prereq  GS 1003  )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Use rhetorical strategies of audience analysis and storytelling to create high-stakes presentations
  • Identify several patterns for organization
  • Apply effective design techniques to maximize presentation effect

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Fundamentals of public speaking: language, voice, diction, gestures, and body movement
  • Basic understanding of organization, development, support, and delivery of a chosen topic within a specific time limit
  • Familiarity with techniques for reducing speech anxiety

Course Topics
  • Paradigm shift in professional presentation techniques (4 classes)
  • Thinking like a designer. Creating ideas, not slides (2 classes)
  • Rhetorical appeals and audience analysis (2 classes)
  • Storytelling and lessons from myths and movies: story, hero, journey (4 classes)
  • Creating diagrams and displaying data (4 classes)
  • Using visual elements: background, color, text, and images (4 classes)
  • Creating movement (2 classes)
  • Governing with templates and interacting with slides/visual aids (2 classes)
  • Create a S.T.A.R. and P.U.N.C.H. moments (2 classes)
  • The five theses of the power of a presentation (2 classes)
  • Boardroom vs Ballroom Presentations (4 classes)

Coordinator
Nadya Shalamova



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