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This course gives students the opportunity to develop speaking, presentation and negotiation skills, useful in employment. Throughout the course students are encouraged to express subject-specific knowledge in spoken forms that can appeal to audiences outside the University, and to critically reflect on their own and others' speech.

One 1-hour lecture per week and one x 2-hour seminar per week as scheduled on MyCampus.

A grade of D3 or above in any level 2 course offered by the College of Arts.

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Portfolio - 100%. This will consist of two commentaries, one on your own and one on another's speech, (total 2000 words - 40%), plus four recordings of your own speech (total 20 minutes - 60%)

This course aims to:

■ develop students' speaking, presenting and negotiating skills with a focus on speaking for employability; 

■ provide practice in speaking in different styles and forms and express subject-specific knowledge in ways which will appeal to audiences outside academia;

■ provide opportunities to work with students and staff from a range of subject areas and disciplines.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ express detailed subject-specific knowledge in a variety of spoken forms to appeal to an audience outside the University;

■ select and sustain an appropriate style and register for a given spoken task;

■ offer constructive comments on their own and others' speech;

■ critically reflect on their own and others' speech through written commentary.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.