シラバス GRADUATE SCHOOL

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 business 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. Recent student comments:

• “Through this class, I overcame my resistance to presentation preparation and learned how to prepare and give a good presentation.”
• 効果的なプレゼンの準備方法、心構え、手法などについて非常に勉強になりました。本講義の内容は英語でのプレゼンだけでなく、日本語でのプレゼンにも活用できるもので、もっと早くこの授業を受けたかったです。ありがとうございました。
• とても有意義な講義でした。初めはフル英語に対して心配はありましたがProfessorのキャラクターのお陰で抵抗なくジャパングリッシュで進めることが出来ました。英語の学習クラスではなくプレゼンテーションの学習クラスであるというスタンスにも救われました。基礎的なプレゼンテーション知識かもしれませんが、実践して身につけるという点において非常に成長を感じられる良い体験でした。

Try this class and see how you can improve!
（日本語での質問、相談も可能。）

２．Learning Objectives

1. Increase your ability to select interesting presentation topics and design simple and clear presentation outlines.
2. Increase your ability to give simple and effective English language professional presentations.
3. 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

1. 10/02 Introduction and Overview of Course
2. 10/09 Presentation Preparation
3. 10/16 Presentation Performance
4. 10/23 Presentation discussion and study of examples (video)
5. 10/30 Presentation 1 Outline Meetings (bring your outline)
6. 11/06 Presentation 1 Practice (a)
7. 11/13 Presentation 1 Practice (b)
8. 11/20 Presentation 1 Practice (c)
9. 11/27 Presentation 1 (Evaluated)
10. 12/04 Presentation 2 Outline Meetings (bring your outline)
11. 12/11 Presentation 2 Practice (a)
12. 12/18 Presentation 2 Practice (b)
13. 01/08 Presentation 2 Practice (c)
14. 01/15 Presentation 2 (Evaluated)
15. 01/22 What did we learn?

４．Grading

Presentation 1: 40%
Presentation 2: 60%