CMM 302 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
SYLLABUS FALL 2003
Course Description: Designed for present and future demands on skilled presenters of information. Included in the teaching [will be] advanced oral presentation skills, computer assisted/aided presentations, teleconferencing, and other presentational skills.
Pre-requisites: CMM 103, 104H, 207, 305, or YGS 161
Instructor: Dr. William N. Denman
Smith Hall Office: 251
Telephone: 696-2476
Email: denman@marshall.edu
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00-1:45 and 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00-2:00 and 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Other times by appointment
Textbooks: Dan O’Hair, Rob Stewart, and Hannah Rubenstein, A Speaker’s Guidebook:
Text and Reference, Bedford/St.Martin’s.
Laura Stewart, Easy Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, QUE.
Course Theme: Giving presentations is a vital part of professional life, whatever professional field you happen to be in. Giving effective, well-created, professional quality presentations is a key factor for success in any career. The ability to convey information and be persuasive is central to the smooth functioning of organizations.
For these reasons this course has been created for students who have completed a basic public speaking course and who need advanced work in integrating modern technology into oral presentations designed for the work-place.
Course Goal: To provide students with training in the creation and delivery of professional presentations that include a variety of goals and that utilize computer assisted visual aids.
Course Objectives: By the end of the course the student should:
1. Be able to create presentations that are effectively organized following traditional
speech patterns of organization.
Assignments: the creation of both preparation and speaking outlines for all oral
presentations.
Evaluation: Outlines will be graded separately from the delivery of the presentations, and grades will be based upon the completeness of the outline, the use of standard outline format, and the indication of sources.
2. Be able to effectively create presentations that are informative in nature.
Assignments: Two informative presentations, one a talk that utilizes more traditional visuals (overheads) and the second a longer presentation using PowerPoint.
Evaluation: Presentations will be evaluated on two factors: the quality of the delivery of the talk, including the effective integration of visual aids, and the
clarity of the talk (the degree to which the audience could understand the information).
3. Be able to effectively create presentations that are persuasive in nature.
Assignment: One persuasive presentation created for a specific audience that utilizes PowerPoint.
Evaluation: Presentation will be evaluated on several factors: the quality of the delivery of the talk, including the integration of visual aids, the clarity of the talk (the extent to which the audience understood the presentation and was persuaded by it), and the use of appropriate and effective persuasive techniques.
4. Be able to create and utilize a variety of effective visual aids as a tool in delivery,
including those created by PowerPoint.
Assignments: The creation and use of visual aids in all of the presentations
assigned in the course.
Evaluation: The use of visual aids will be evaluated on several factors: their
appropriateness to the nature of the presentation, the extent to which they are used
to complement the presentation, and the over-all quality of the visual aids.
Course Assessment Activities:
Oral Presentations:
Introductory talk: “What I Enjoy” 20 points
First Informative Presentation:
Outline 30 points
Presentation 60 points
Second Informative Presentation
Outline 40 points
Presentation 80 points
Persuasive Presentation
Outline 50 points
Presentation 100 points
Total: 380 points
Grading: 342 – 380 = A; 304 – 341 = B; 266 – 303 = C; 228 –265 = D;
Below 228 an F.
CMM 302 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS SEMESTER SCHEDULE FALL 2003
WEEK ONE
M 25 Introduction to course, syllabus, etc.
Assignment: “What I Enjoy” talk
Assignment: Chapter 1 in Guidebook
W 27 “What I Enjoy” talk
F 29 “What I Enjoy” talks concluded
Assignment: Topics for First Informative Presentation
Assignment: Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10
WEEK TWO
M 1 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
W 3 Discuss topics for Informative Presentation
F 5 Finding and using supporting materials for Informative Presentations
Assignment: Chapters 11, 12, and 13
WEEK THREE
M 8 Organizing the speech—sample speech
Topics and main points for Informative due next session
W 10 Organizing the speech continued.
Rough draft of outline due next class session.
F 12 Rough draft of outline for First Informative Presentation
WEEK FOUR
M 15 Work session on Powerpoint/Overheads
In-Class session on delivery with overheads
Final draft of outline due next class session
W 17 Final draft of outlines for review
F 19 First Informative Presentations
WEEK FIVE
M 22 First Informative Presentations
W 24 First Informative Presentations
Assignment: Second Informative Presentations
Assignment: Chapter 23
CMM 302 SEMESTER SCHEDULE FALL 2003
F 26 First Informative Presentations
WEEK SIX
M 29 First Informative Presentations
W 1 Topics for second informative presentations
Assignment: chapters 14, 15, 16
F 3 Introductions, Conclusions, Transitions, and other helpful stuff
Rough drafts of outlines for Second Informative due next class sesson
WEEK SEVEN
M 6 Rough drafts of outlines due
Assignment: Chapters 20, 21, 22,
W 8 PowerPoint workshop
F 10
WEEK EIGHT
M 13 Revised drafts of outlines due
W 15
F 17 Second Informative Presentation
WEEK NINE
M 20 Second Informative Presentation
W 22 Second Informative Presentation
Assignment: persuasive presentation
Assignment: Chapters 3, 24, 25
F 24 Second Informative Presentations
WEEK TEN
M 27 Second Informative Presentation
Topics, specific purposes, and thesis statements due next class session
W 29 Topics, specific purposes, and thesis statements due
F 30 Discussion of argument, evidence, structure of presentations
CMM 302 SEMESTER SCHEDULE FALL 2003
M 3 Discussion of evidence, argument, outlines.
W 5 Individual meetings with Denman begin (students will meet Denman twice to discuss outline, visuals, etc.)
F 7 Individual meetings
WEEK TWELVE
M 10 Individual meetings
W 12 Individual meetings
F 14 Individual meetings
WEEK THIRTEEN
M 17 Individual meetings
W 19 Persuasive Presentations
F 21 Dr. Denman out of town
WEEK FOURTEEN
M 24 Persuasive Presentations
W 27 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
F 29 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
M 1 Persuasive Presentations
W 3 Persuasive Presentations
F 5 Persuasive Presentations
FINAL SESSION Friday, December 12th 12:45-2:45 pm Persuasive Presentations