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Learning Outcomes For LANG 3210: Public Communication for the Professions

The learning experiences which constitute this course have been designed:

1. To further develop appropriate, acceptable speech patterns

2. To provide the opportunity for students to become better informative and evaluative listeners

3. To instill the desire to communicate clearly, concisely, and accurately

4. To further teach how to employ facial expressions, hand gestures and posturing in order to more effectively communicate

5. To teach students to think logically, clearly and concisely in all communication and listening situations

6. To teach students how to intelligently and critically analyze other communicators in a variety of communication situations

7. To further teach students how to use their voices effectively as tools of communication including: vocal inflection, proper articulation, projective, enunciation, pronunciation, pitch, rate, and use of pauses.

8. To teach students how to react and interact with their audience

9. To teach students how to read types of body language and how to use body language as a tool of communication

10. To give students the desire to speak in other communication situations besides the classroom situation

11. To help students to overcome their fears of speaking in front of groups of people in the working and social situations

12. To give students the opportunity to present a formal research presentation, using visual aids, before a group of people

13. To develop the ability to listen, to analyze and to critique other speakers using specific criteria

14. to be able to prepare and use visual aids in a variety of communication settings

15. To give students a pride in themselves as effective communicators who wish to utilize their communication skills to better their lives and the lives of those with whom they will interact

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