Professional Communication: Rhetoric & Voice

3 Credits

A skills-based course in speaking instruction in English for professional communicators with a focus on public speaking, voice, diction, and pronunciation. Focuses on developing public speaking, voice, diction, and pronunciation skills. Designed to teach message creation and organization, sentence structure, and language use, vocal qualities designed to enhance proper pronunciation, breathing, and articulation skills, register variation, listening skills, English vocabulary, audience adaptation skills with attention to cultural distinctions, presentational skills with visual aids, and interpretive skills.