Speech & Citizenship (COR 111)
Term: 2025-2026 Fall Semester
Tue-Thu, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (8/27/2025 - 12/11/2025) Location: FCSTA KENAN 422
In this course, the student will learn how to tailor messages to different audiences, connect authentically with their audience through their unique speaking styles, and create compelling oral presentations. This course approaches speech as an ethically charged activity practiced in civic and professional contexts. Specific objectives are to develop communication skills that invite transformation of both speaker and audience and to create discursive events where safety, value, freedom, and openness enable growth. As students learn to negotiate their place in the public space as speaker, audience member and/or engaged participant, they take responsibility for the on-going/evolving community discussion. The student is a part of that discussion, and this course intends to help students contribute to and take from that discussion.