Dec 07, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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TCM 3020 - Advanced Presentations

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits


Course Description
The purpose of this course is to strengthen and refine communication skills for professional settings, particularly in explaining complex content to audiences. Students will develop and apply strategies for using presentation tools and materials effectively in multiple workplace-focused applications. Advanced techniques will help students build on foundational skills to use graphic elements effectively and create multi-modal audio and visual supports. Collaborative projects will help students plan and coordinate effectively and further develop interpersonal and leadership skills. Students will strengthen individual and team delivery skills through practice and critical analysis of performances. Typical projects include individual and collaborative presentations, formal and informal interactions with audiences outside the classroom setting and creating and analyzing presentations that communicate complex content.
Prereq: COM 3001  (quarter system prereq: GS 1003 or GS 1030H)
Note: None
This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Communicate design ideas effectively
  • Apply strategic design principles to explain complex content to audiences
  • Integrate presentation tools and capabilities to create media-rich content
  • Design presentation materials for authentic workplace purposes to deliver content in real-time and serve as an archived document
  • Demonstrate effective collaboration strategies through coordinated presentation design and delivery

Prerequisites by Topic
  • College-level writing, research, and presentation skills


Course Topics
  • Boardroom-style presentations
  • Virtual presentation/video-conferencing
  • Working with data
  • Effective delivery strategies and practices
  • Group presentation strategies and practices
  • Presentation tools and applications

Coordinator
Dr. Kim Baker



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