- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Academic Public Speaking in English 4024-APSiE-OG
30-hour course for graduate students interested in improving their academic public speaking skills by understanding the academic standards of public speaking in regard to preparation, organization and delivery of typical academic talks and presentations, as well as practicing them in a friendly classroom environment.
During the course, the students will get to know the theory and practice of academic public speaking by listening to brief lectures and tutorials, reading relevant articles, and viewing and discussing sample academic talks and presentations. They will also have a chance to prepare and deliver two shorter informative speeches (explanation of a concept or theory and description of a phenomenon or process) and a longer persuasive speech, presenting their own research project in a grant competition.
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general courses
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the participants:
• Will be critical consumers of academic public speaking , capable of identifying good and bad practices
• Will know the rules for effective preparation and delivery of typical academic speeches such as seminar presentation or thesis presentation
• Will know the golden standards for the use and citation of sources in academic public speaking
• Will know the proper organization and structural formats of informative academic talks, such as explanation of a concept or theory and description of a phenomenon or process
• Will be able to effectively construct arguments, reason and prove theses without committing logical fallacies
• Will be able to effectively present their research project such as Master’s thesis in the context of a research grant competition
• Will know the rules for the preparation and presentation of visual aids, especially text slides and graphs or charts presenting numerical data
• Will know the guidelines for the use of voice and language in academic public speaking
• Will be aware of the role of body language as speech enhancement
• Will be ready to give academic talks in a modern an engaging way
Assessment criteria
Full attendance required (only one absence is allowed )
Course credit is awarded for obtaining at least 60% of points available in all task categories: one short informative talk (10%), two longer presentations (40%); other home and class assignments (30%), attendance and class participation (20%)
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Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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