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The overall objectives of Public Speaking I and IA at Kansas State University are:

(1) to help students become better public speakers and
(2) to help students become more effective critical listeners.

More specifically, the course aims to give students the opportunity to learn to compose and present speeches that: maintain audience interest, create a change in the minds of audience members by promoting understanding and introducing new knowledge, change audience attitudes and behaviors, leave audience members with strong memories of the speech content.

Download the Fall 2006 SPCH 105 syllabus

• Microsoft Word format

Download the Fall 2006 SPCH 106 syllabus

• Microsoft Word format

Download the Quiz-Out Booklet for Public Speaking 1

       • Microsoft Word format

Text for the Class:

Text:  Goulden, N. and Schenck-Hamlin, W. (1999). Creating Speeches: A Decision-Making Approach, 2nd Edition.  New York: McGraw-Hill.
ISBN:0072352833

>>> Also see: List of approved outside speeches

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