Syllabus CMM 103

Fall, 2008

Dr. Kristine Greenwood

SH 247

(O)  696-6788

(H)  525-6669

E-mail  Greenwoo@Marshall.edu

Office Hours

MTWTh           8-11

Other hours by appointment

Course Philosophy, Course Objectives,    Policy, Plagiarism Policy, Course Requirements and Grading can in found in the Workbook on pages 5-7

Additional Objectives for the Core Curriculum Oral/Written/Visual Communication

Students will be able to:

            Collect or create and discover, and assess, manage, integrate, analyze, and evaluate ideas, information, data, images and other content, for communication

            Adapt and create messages and works appropriate to audience through style, organization, media

            Adapt and create messages that represent an ethical, credible, logical and authoritative persona, and/or one who controls form, style, accuracy and medium or media

            Communicate purposefully, to persuade, report, describe, narrate, explain, discover, etc.

            Organize, structure, and form works and messages effectively for purpose, audience, discipline

            Develop message or work thoroughly enough to meet needs of audience and fulfill purpose

            Use body and voice to speak effectively; use psycho-motor skills to elicit responses, create works

            Care for tools and devices used in discipline; choose and use them appropriately to communicate

Additional Information about the course

            You are in a class that is paired with English 101.  We are hoping that you will become a learning community that will enhance your ability to successfully negotiate your college career.  Communication Studies and English have a great deal in common in terms of communicating with an audience, one orally the other written.  They are also very different in terms of the skills needed to effectively communicate messages.  We hope that you will be able to transfer skills that you learn in each class to the other as well as to classes throughout your college career. 

            You will also have an embedded librarian to help you learn to use the academic library resources to research for your speeches and papers.  This semester we will concentrate on an issue of your choice, one that the presidential candidates and their respective parties will be debating this election cycle.   You will choose a broad issue of interest to you, research that issue through the MU Library and develop your major speeches (informative & persuasive) from that research.  The shorter assignments (supporting a claim & creating an argument) can come from that research as well. 

Public speaking is an integral part of the public forum and you will be participating in the public forum this semester through this class.  You will be helping yourself and your classmates become good citizens of our democracy through your exploration of issues important to you.

Additional Attendance Policy

Because public speaking is an audience centered activity you are expected to be an attentive audience member for each of your classmates.  To that end, I will be taking attendance on each speaking day.  If you are absent and do not have a university excuse, you will lose 10 points for that assignment.  Because we have a limited time in class, you are also expected to be prepared to deliver your speeches on your assigned day.  If you are unable to speak at that time, you may make-up the speech only if we have time during the regularly scheduled speaking days and have a legitimate excuse for your absence.  No make-up speeches will occur during regular class periods or without your audience of classmates.

Tentative Schedule

Week 1             Chapters 1 & 2

Week 2             Chapters 5 & 6             Introductory Speeches

Week 3             Chapters 4 & 3 & 14      Informative Speech Proposal due  Sept 11

Week 4             Chapters 10                   Unit I Exam  September 18 Chapters 1-6

Week 5             Chapters 8 & 9             

Week 6             Chapters 13 & 12          Supporting a Claim assignment due Sept 30

Week 7                                                    Informative Speech Performances & Outlines

Week 8             Chapter 15                     Informative Speech Performances  

Week 9             Chapter 7                       Unit II Exam October 21    

Self Analysis Due

                                                                 Persuasive Speech Proposal due

Week 10           Chapter 7 & 11             Creating an argument assignment due Oct. 30

Week 11           Chapter 11                    Persuasive Speech Performances

Week 12                                                           Persuasive Speech Performances

Week 13           Chapter 16                     Persuasive Speech Performances

Week 14                                                Critical Listening Assignment due

                                                             Ceremonial Speeches

Week 15           Review & Evaluation     Self Analysis due

Week 16          Final Exam Comprehensive     Thursday Dec. 11 or Tuesday Dec. 16