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Main goal of this course is the development of professional skills in speech and talk. Students learn to communicate intentionally and to be aware of the audience while planning their talks.

We analyze and train different forms of speeches and talks, that are performed at university or at work. Contents are: Basics of oral communication including especially rhetoric communication; rhetoric exercises followed by individual feedback; forms of speeches and talks; production, composition and performance of presentations and speeches; comprehensibility and using media; basics of argumentation skills; structuring conversations and discussions.

Hands-on teaching activities; Presentations, discussions, exercises; Lecture and student-centeres activities; Using various feedback techniques (e.g. peer feedback, video-based feedback, critrical in-class analysis of student presentations); Hands-on presentation activities

in-class oral and written assignments

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