SPRING TERM 20073 (B12)

SPC2600          

Ref. 256725

Instructor:  Arnold Wood, Jr.

FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION

"Speaking With Confidence"

SPC 2600

Please read this packet carefully for course requirements.

NAME:                                      Professor Arnold Wood, Jr.

CAMPUS ADDRESS:                Florida Community College at Jacksonville

                                                South Campus, Office T-265

                                                11901 Beach Blvd.

                                                Jacksonville, FL 32246

E-MAIL ADDRESS:                    awood@fccj.org

PHONE NUMBER:                     646-2341

FAX NUMBER:                          646-2312

BEST TIME TO CALL:                Monday – Thursday: 9:00 – 10:00 am.  If I am unavailable, leave your name, phone number and a detailed message. Please speak slowly so that I can write down your phone number.  Messages will be returned within 2 working days.

The following materials are required and the textbooks may be purchased at any FCCJ bookstore in the Distance Learning Section.  (If the texts are not on the shelf, please ask a bookstore employee to call the bookstores on the other campuses for textbook availability.)

1.     Confidence in Public Speaking: Telecourse Version, 8^th ed. (Nelson/Pearson. LA: Roxbury Publishing, 2005)

ISBN# 1-931719-31-4

2.  Appendix (as necessary) to be distributed at Orientation meeting. This may consist of a chapter not included in the current text.

3.  Two blank VHS-size (1/2inch) videotapes (DVD format is also acceptable) on which to record your speeches.

4.  Video lessons for “Fundamentals of Speech Communication” - See Airing Schedule or view the tapes at an

LRC (or you may check them out on VHS format from the LRC). You don’t buy the series….

There is one required on-campus orientation meeting for all SPC 2600 Telecourse students to meet with your professor and your fellow students to discuss any concerns you may have about course requirements.  At the orientation, communication strategies will be explored, and the Appendix will be distributed.  Attendance is required.

·         Thursday, June 7, 2007 at South Campus, Room T-121, 6:00pm – 7:00pm.

·         This meeting is very, very important!!!! If you are unable to attend the orientation meeting, do not register for this course because you will be administratively withdrawn.  NO EXCEPTIONS!

You will record your individual speeches on alternate VHS tapes (or a DVD). On tape A (label it thus), you will record speeches 1, 3, and 5. On tape B (label it thus), you will record speeches 2, 4, and 6. On the tape labels, in addition to the designation A or B, you need to write your name and mailing address as will as each speech #, speech title, and speech length (minutes and seconds…i.e., 3 mins. 47 secs.).

IMPORTANT NOTE: You MUST give your speech before an audience. Whoever does the video recording of your speeches needs to include a shot of your audience. You should begin your speeches by thanking your audience for attending your speech and your videographer for recording your speech. You should have the videographer use a full shot (you should be fully in the image so that I can see both you facial expressions as well as your posture and body control) to record your speech. He/she should move the camera only when you refer directly to your a/v graphic/table, etc. Of course, you may record your speeches until you are satisfied with your presentations.

Remember that you are to speak your speeches, not read from a prepared text. I want to see your face as you “talk” to your audience. I don’t want to see the top of your head as you bend and read a text of your speech. Reading is not speaking.

Each taped speech must be accompanied by a typed outline (use Microsoft Word…you may e me the outline of each speech as an attached document). Read and model your speech outlines after the information found in your textbook, chapter 7 (you will find several examples throughout the chapters to serve as models for your own outlines). Additionally, note that in your Ecology, Informative, and Persuasive speeches, you should do research using at least 3 sources (use good short sources [current articles] from the Internet by doing a Google or Ask.com search (better, go to a campus library and have a librarian help you find good sources). These sources you will you quote/paraphrase (read chapter I) during your speech. You will prepare a Works Cited page (formerly called Bibliography) following the models for APA or MLA on I-31 in your textbook; include the Works Cited page with the outline. Make sure your entries are correctly formed.

You will be expected to use Presentational Aids (see chapter 12 of the text) as you speak. You will find it very helpful to know and use PowerPoint to distill the points you are to discuss at length (these will be your paragraph divisions) in your speech. You can also add images with the points to further enhance/show what you are explaining. This is very important. Make sure I can see the graphic (your Presentational Aid) as you speak…refer to the graphic and the points as you speak. You are showing and telling.

You will mail the tapes in alternating fashion, following the schedule below (Speeches are defined/described in Section L of this syllabus):

Speech 1 (Tape A) - Name Speech (with outline page)

            Thursday, June 14, 2007              Send/deliver by Monday, June 11, 2007 to South Campus, T-265

Speech 2 (Tape B) - Ecology Speech (with outline and works-cited pages)

            Thursday, June 28, 2007                    Send/deliver by Monday, June 25, 2007 to South Campus, T-265

Speech 3 (Tape A) - Informative Speech (with outline and works-cited pages)

            Thursday, July 12, 2007                  Send/deliver by Monday, July 9, 2007 to South Campus, T-265

Speech 4 (Tape B) - Persuasive Speech (with outline and works-cited pages)

            Thursday, July 26, 2007                  Send/deliver by Monday, July 23, 2007 to South Campus, T-265

Speech 5 (Tape A) - Oral Interpretation Speech (with outline page)

            Thursday, August 9, 2007                Send/deliver by Monday, August 6, 2007 Campus, T-265

Speech 6 (Tape B) – Special Occasion Speech (with outline page)

            Thursday, August 23, 2007                     Send/deliver by Monday, August 20, 2007 to South Campus, T-265

Your work – the preparation of, outlines of, and delivery (taping) of each speech – must be your own. Please refer to pages 399 and following for the College policy regarding acts of academic dishonesty.

Term ends Friday, August 24, 2007. Grades will be available on Artemis on and after August 27, 2007

To be successful, the weekly assignments for this course (located in section I of this package) need to be completed during those time frames.  Do not fall behind - call me if you experience any problem with the assignments immediately.

NO LATE SPEECH TAPES WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Beginning fall semester, 1997, according to guidelines established by Florida HB 1545, all students may enroll in a specific college credit course only twice at a regular tuition rate.  If the first two attempts are unsuccessful (all grades will count as an attempt, including audit  FN, IW, W, I, F, and D), the third time a student enrolls in the course he/she must pay full cost of instruction.  This cost is equivalent to the out-of-state tuition rate, approximately four times the cost of regular tuition or $201.85 per semester hour (cost as of 2003/04).  Only “drops” submitted by the advertised deadline date (during the first week of a term) will not count as being enrolled.

            Monday, June 11, 2007 – 6:30 pm                With Refund

                                                                                    Class is deleted from student’s record

            Thursday, July 26, 2007 – 6:30 pm               No refund

                                                                               “W” grade assigned

Important Note:  The drop deadline right after the orientation meeting and/or first video lesson on cable TV.  If you are uncertain about this course, review the course outline and view a taped lesson in an FCCJ Library before the drop deadline.

Wednesday -- July 4, 2007 -- Independence Day Monday, February 20 – President’s Day

FCCJ telecourses are available on the following cable television channels:

                        Callahan                                    Ch. 16, Comcast

                        Clay County                              Ch.  7, Comcast (noon – midnight only)

                        Clay County                              Ch. 26, Comcast

Duval County                             Ch. 26, Comcast

                        Fernandina Beach                      Ch. 19, Comcast

                        St. Johns County                       Ch. 26, Comcast

                        St. Johns County                       Ch. 55, Time Warner

CABLE TELEVISION SCHEDULE

You can view the airing schedule on the web at www.opencampus.org/tv.html

A = 1^st lesson of the week; B = 2^nd lesson; C = 3rd Lesson.   * = Repeat; 0 = No Lesson Aired

Please note the Holidays listed above – No lessons will air on that date

ALL testing information is on the Exam Schedule (Section J) that follows this Airing Schedule

See Speech Due Dates, Section D pages 1 & 2.

Grading Scale

90 - 100%         =  A                  Major Presentations                   = 70%

80 -   89            =  B                  Speech Outlines                        = 10

70 -   79              =  C                  Homework Assignments             = 10

60 -   69            =  D                  Journal                                      = 10  

Below 60           =  F                  Total                                         100%

"I" Grade - None.

“NP" Grade - No Longer Used.

"W" Grade - Official Withdrawal - If you feel that you will be unable to maintain the grade you desire in this course, you may withdraw by Wednesday, July 19, 2000 by 6:30 pm or accept the letter grade you earn.  If you do not officially withdraw but stop fulfilling the assigned work, you will receive an F.

“FN” Grade - Failure Non-Attendance - The “FN” grade will be assigned students have not attended – in part or wholly – class.  If used, the “FN” grade will lower students’ overall grade point average (GPA). 

For this course, failure to attend Orientation will result in students, as the law requires, be withdrawn from the course.

Disabled Student Services

Specific services (such as notetaker, tutor, reader, scribe, interpreter) can be provided upon receipt of documentation.  Students needing special accommodations for testing must notify their campus Disabled Student Specialist at the beginning of the term.  NO special accommodations can be made without documentation from FCCJ’s Disabled Student Services Office.

Central Office: 633-5978

Downtown Campus:  633-8488                                                    Kent Campus:  381-3500

            North Campus:  766-6784                                                           South Campus:  646-2191         

Learning Centers

Tutoring is available for all telecourse students (for a variety of subjects) in the Learning Centers located on each campus.  Please call in advance to make sure a tutor is available to help you and for hours of operation:

            Downtown Campus:  633-8166                                                    Kent Campus:  381-3449

            North Campus:  766-6718                                                           South Campus:  646-2196

Libraries

Telecourse lessons are on videotape in any FCCJ Libraries.  Videotapes cannot be checked out or rented from the Library and must be viewed in the Library.  Ask for your video lesson by both lesson number and name of the video series.  Call the Library for hours of operation:

            Downtown Campus:  633-8368                                                    Kent Campus:  381-3522

            North Campus:  766-6711                                                           South Campus:  646-2174

            Deerwood Center: 997-2574

Visit our Open Campus Library at http://www.fccj.org/library/opencampus/

The Open Campus Librarian, is available to provide assistance for Distance Learning Students.  The Librarian can be reached at the Deerwood Center Library, phone number 997-2563.

Rental (not applicable)

Most telecourses may be rented for an additional fee.  For detailed information, call RMI at 1-800-745-5480 or access their web site at http://www.rmimedia.com GLY 1001, MAT 0024, MAT 1033, MGF 1106, POS 2112 and SPC 2600 are not available for rental.  Videos cannot be rented from FCCJ’s Libraries.

Telecourse Assistance – Call 997-2654.  For other assistance regarding telecourses, call or visit the FCCJ Distance Learning Office at the DWC E1500.  If a scheduled telecourse lesson does not appear to be on cable TV, call 997-2669 as soon as you notice a problem. You can view the airing schedule on the web at www.opencampus.org/tv.html 

Telecourse Updates – Call 633-8309

For recorded information on assignment changes, upcoming exams, telecourse replays, and special notes from your instructor.  Available 24 hours a day.

Replacement CD’s – Call 997-2654. For CD-based courses only: If you lose your CD or if it proves inoperative, call for a replacement immediately.

NOTE:  These are not necessarily in the order in which they are given.

1.  NAME presentation: Devise a speech presentation, the purpose of which is to help us remember your first name.  Employ virtually any device(s) you can think of to give your presentation IMPACT (high memory retention value).  Every element - idea/approach, script, props, visual aids, costume (?), audio aid, movement, audience participation, etc. should collectively work to enhance name recall.  The introduction should arrest our attention; the remainder of the presentation should maintain our attention.  Ask yourself what it would take to gain and hold your own attention; the same thing would probably hold the attention of others.  Practice under actual conditions - for example, a

poster that sticks to your living room wall may not stick to a chalky blackboard.  No projectors may be used.  Do not use loud noises to achieve impact.  If you use association as a retention device, it must not be negative.  Time:  2 to 4 minutes. Outline required.

2.  ECOLOGY presentation: You should select a topic on the environment (and you can be against some practice like restricting jets from air space of neighborhoods or for some practice like drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; you can discuss release pythons in the Everglades or lowering the speed limit to 55 to conserve fuel). As part of the evidence in the body of the speech, you should will quote and paraphrase experts from researched sources. Visual aids and additional interest/impact enhancement devices must be clearly employed to enrich the speech presentation (I must be able to see students make use of a chart, table, exploded drawing, etc. during the speech).  Time:  4 to 6 minutes. Outline required.

3.  INFORMATIVE presentation:  "Something of Value" - objective is to have us become concerned about/interested in/more knowledgeable about your topic.  Select a topic that you find valuable/interesting.  Make us interested!  Search for an original/creative/compelling approach to the topic.  Bring it to life!  Do not read or recite a report. As with the ecology speech, students must make use of research during the speech. Students must employ visual aid and additional interest/impact enhancement devices during the speech as well.  Time:  4 to 6 minutes.  Outline required.

4.  PERSUASIVE Presentation: Based on an issue that you are committed to intellectually/emotionally.  Take a strong stand.  This presentation will inform but it will go on to praise, make commentary, blame some person, object to a situation, judgment or policy, solve a problem, resolve a conflict, propose a compromise, reinforce a present choice or attitude, create indecision (open-mindedness), foster delay (moratorium), stimulate thought/action, provide inspiration (a purely inspirational speech is fine) ...The presentation, built on the five steps of the motivated sequence, should cause your audience to willingly accept your proposal through your effective use of logic/evidence/emotion. As with the ecology speech, students make use of research during the speech.  Visual aids and other devices must be used appropriately to enhance impact.  Time:  4 to 6 minutes.  Outline required.  Double weighted in grade average.

5.  ORAL INTERPRETATION:  (Readings)  Present a literary selection(s) putting together the elements of pitch, rate, volume and quality changes to express the meaning, mood or intent of its creator. You are giving a performance/dramatic presentation to your audience. In your introduction tell us a little something about the piece to hook our interest before beginning and then, at the end, summarize its point/value. Time:  2 minutes maximum. Outline required.

6.  SPECIAL OCCASION: Make a testimonial to a group of people you admire or an invention worthy of tribute.  Your speech should be between 150 and 300 words long.  Introduction and conclusion should make an impact: tell why you chose the piece, its meaning or place in your life, what we are to get from the piece, etc.  Be concise and powerful. Time:  2 minutes. Outline required.

Each speech must be original, your own work. See the most current FCCJ college catalog (pages 409-411) for the college's explanation of academic dishonesty.

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