CIM: Advanced Presentation Techniques (18BBA90021)
General information
Type: |
OP |
Curs: |
3 |
Period: |
S semester |
ECTS Credits: |
2 ECTS |
Teaching Staff:
Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Language |
|
Gaby Michaelides |
English Section |
ENG |
Previous Knowledge
Students should already have had some basic training in Presentation skills
Workload distribution
Contact hours: 24
(Input sessions, student participation and individual feedback and counseling)
Independent work: 24 hours
Course Learning Objectives
This course is designed to enable students to optimize their presentation skills by using a wider range of techniques, and focusing on their strengths and weaknesses as public speakers, in order to build on the first and improve the second:
A. Key aspects of rhetoric: Ethos, Pathos and Logos
B. Frameworks for analysing presentations
C. Use of the voice
D. The pillars of rhetoric: Inventio, discutio, elocutio, memoria, actio
E. Adjusting to your audience
CONTENT
1. Course Contents 1. Profiling the presenter - Self-Analysis and goal setting 2. Types of presentation - Adapting your approach 3. ABCD of Presentations - rhetoric 4. Intensive voice practice 5. Impact techniques
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Methodology
Class Activities include the following:
1 Giving short and one extensive presentation
2 Discussion in class
3 Self study and preparation
4 Critical viewing of video recordings, films and live performances
5 Reading of related texts
6 Peer evaluation and discussion
7. Presentation journal
Assessment criteria
20% Continuous assessment of all class activities taking into account the following criteria:
1. Adapting the language and content to the specific audience
2. Selecting relevant information according to the task and audience
3. Organising and presenting the information clearly and coherently
4. Following the conventions of the genre in terms of the content, awareness of body language and intonation conventions
50% Final Assessed task (15 minute prepared business presentation)
30% Final presentation journal: around 1000 words based on what participants have learned during the course
Attendance: Given the characteristics of the course, there is a minimum requirement of 75% attendance. Failure to meet this requirement automatically leads to a fail.
Bibliography
Relevant reading and viewing material will be recommended by the teacher during the course.
Timetable and sections
Group |
Teacher |
Department |
|
Gaby Michaelides |
English Section |
Timetable
From 2019/2/7 to 2019/3/14:
Each Thursday from 8:00 to 11:00.
From 2019/4/4 to 2019/4/11:
Each Thursday from 8:00 to 11:00.