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TC 342 - Professional Presentation Techniques

2 lecture hours 2 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: EN 241 )
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: Presentation Zen (Garr Reynolds), Made to Stick (Heath), Presentation secrets of Steve Jobs, Duarte design (4 classes)
• Thinking like a designer. Creating ideas, not slides (2 classes)
• Why resonate: rhetorical appeals, audience analysis, and storytelling (2 classes)
• 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)
Laboratory Topics
None appended
Coordinator
Nadezhda Shalamova


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