シラバス
Presentations for Professionals（後期2単位）
客員教授 Ray Roman
１．Purpose
The purpose of this course is to increase your ability to give simple and effective presentations in English on professional topics. The focus will be on gaining presentation and communication skills that improve your presentations in any language.
This means that even if you lack confidence in your present English language skills—for example, pronunciation or grammar—you can still gain much from this course. If you have just basic English-speaking ability and a desire to improve your presentation skills, you can take this course. In it, you will learn skills that you can apply to presentations in your other language(s) too. Not only that! You will also discover that designing and presenting your original ideas can be fun and challenging. A recent student commented, “Through this class, I overcame my resistance to presentation preparation and learned how to prepare and give a good presentation.” Try it and see what you can do! （日本語での質問、相談も可能。）
２．Learning Objectives
- Increase your ability to select interesting presentation topics and design simple and clear presentation outlines.
- Increase your ability to give simple and effective English language professional presentations.
- Increase your ability to carefully observe the presentations of others, and to recognize strengths and weaknesses in those presentations.
We will begin the course (class 2 and class 3) with some basic guidelines for preparing and presenting presentations, but after those first few classes we will focus on doing. You will have lots of chances to try presentations and to learn by watching the presentations of your classmates.
There is no textbook; study materials will be provided.
３．Class
開講形態は別途通知。- 10/04 Introduction and Overview of Course
- 10/11 Presentation Preparation
- 10/18 Presentation Performance
- 10/25 Presentation discussion and study of examples (video)
- 11/8 Presentation 1 Outline Meetings (bring your outline)
- 11/15 Presentation 1 Practice (a)
- 11/22 Presentation 1 Practice (b)
- 11/29 Presentation 1 Practice (c)
- 12/06 Presentation 1 (Evaluated)
- 12/13 Presentation 2 Outline Meetings (bring your outline)
- 12/20 Presentation 2 Practice (a)
- 01/10 Presentation 2 Practice (b)
- 01/17 Presentation 2 Practice (c)
- 01/24 Presentation 2 (Evaluated)
- 01/31 What did we learn?
４．Grading
Presentation 1: 40%
Presentation 2: 60%