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Oral Communication Spring A - CANCELED

This event is part of series:

March 31, 2020 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Speaker(s): 
Dominic J Wang

**IMPORTAND NOTICE: In light of recent COVID-19 developments and the university’s guidance around social distancing, we have reviewed our upcoming program offerings and determined this course is not suitable for the Zoom format. For this reason, this course has been canceled. Thank you for your understanding.

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I: Oral Communication

Spring Session A: Tuesdays, March 31 - April 28, 5:00pm-7:00pm

This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies.

Course topics:

  • Conversations in formal and informal settings: what to say and how to say it
  • Skills and strategies for effective listening and improving pronunciation
  • Verbal skills and strategies for participating in group situations
  • Understanding cultural cues and expectations in oral communication

By the end of the course, participants are expected to:

  • Gain skills to improve conversational fluency
  • Apply techniques to improve pronunciation
  • Develop active, and interactive, listening skills
  • Articulate ideas more clearly and confidently
  • Use more sophisticated verbal skills in negotiation, persuasive or awkward situations
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