Classics 250 - Rhetoric and Public Speaking

Institution:

Bard College

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In this course, students are required to give speeches in various genres, from presentation of information before small groups to formal addresses recommending courses of action to deliberative assemblies. Videos of the speeches given are used in the critiquing process. Students also study the texts of actual orations and theoretical treatises on the nature of rhetoric by authors and orators such as Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, Churchill, and Martin Luther King Jr. Time is spent examining tapes and videos of important speeches of the last century. One section of the class constitutes a "virtual campus" course that meets, through videoconferencing, with students at Smolny College in St. Petersburg. In the course of giving speeches for each other, Smolny and Bard students reflect on differences in the public speaking traditions of Russia and the Anglophone world.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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