Course Details
Presentation Skills
Academic Year 2023/24
CZ057 course is part of 5 study plans
N-P-C-SI (N) / S / TZB Winter Semester 2nd year
N-P-C-SI (N) / S / KSS Winter Semester 2nd year
N-P-C-SI (N) / S / NPS Winter Semester 2nd year
N-P-C-SI (N) / R Winter Semester 2nd year
N-K-C-SI (N) / S / NPS Winter Semester 2nd year
The course provides practical mastery of presentation skills. Students will learn the theory of complex preparation of the presentation at the lectures and at the seminars they will present specialized topic from field of civil engineering. Students are provided with group and individual feedback based on which students can enhance the effectiveness of their presentations for professionals and the general public. We will demonstrate how to structure the content of our speech with regard to important factors that affect the perception of the speaker - the curve of your audience's attention and nonverbal forms communication.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Entry Knowledge
No special knowledge is needed, except those gained on a High school (about human communication).
Knowledge of basics from general and social psychology is invited.
Knowledge of basics from general and social psychology is invited.
Aims
Orientation in subject, ability to aplicate of knowledge, information and practises in professional and personal life.
Knowledge of ethic principles and their connections with management. Understanding of human change in firm culture, manager´s personality and firm strategy.
Knowledge of ethic principles and their connections with management. Understanding of human change in firm culture, manager´s personality and firm strategy.
Basic Literature
ŠIMURKA, David a kol. Mluvte jako mluvčí. David Šimurka. 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-5766-6. (cs)
HUGHES, John a Andrew MALLETT. Successful Presentations Student. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-476835-1. (en)
HUGHES, John a Andrew MALLETT. Successful Presentations Student. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-476835-1. (en)
Syllabus
1. Introduction to the topic. Selection of a theme for spoken presentation.
2. Assessment criteria for the presentations. Stage fright and relaxation techniques.
3. Emotional intelligence. Empathy and its role in interpersonal communication.
4. The role of self-knowledge and self-monitoring in communication. Criticism and praise in communication.
5. Basics of the nonverbal communication. Principles of appropriate verbal and nonverbal expression. Beginning with the presentation.
6. Analysis of the most common mistakes in speech in terms of nonverbal communication .
7. Verbal communication, public speech. Rhetorics. Physiology of the speech act. Work and exercise with speech organs.
8. Types of presentations (informative, persuasing and improvised) and their specifics. Work with the audience. Presentation of the results on the professional and lay level.
9. Software support of presentations. Presentation tools and their appropriate use.
10. Ethics and etiquette in terms of presentation situations.
11. Specifics of presentations of civil engineering disciplines.
12. Specifics of team presentations. The role of the individual in the working group.
13. Presentation of printed materials. Written communication.
2. Assessment criteria for the presentations. Stage fright and relaxation techniques.
3. Emotional intelligence. Empathy and its role in interpersonal communication.
4. The role of self-knowledge and self-monitoring in communication. Criticism and praise in communication.
5. Basics of the nonverbal communication. Principles of appropriate verbal and nonverbal expression. Beginning with the presentation.
6. Analysis of the most common mistakes in speech in terms of nonverbal communication .
7. Verbal communication, public speech. Rhetorics. Physiology of the speech act. Work and exercise with speech organs.
8. Types of presentations (informative, persuasing and improvised) and their specifics. Work with the audience. Presentation of the results on the professional and lay level.
9. Software support of presentations. Presentation tools and their appropriate use.
10. Ethics and etiquette in terms of presentation situations.
11. Specifics of presentations of civil engineering disciplines.
12. Specifics of team presentations. The role of the individual in the working group.
13. Presentation of printed materials. Written communication.
Prerequisites
No special knowledge is needed, except those gained on a High school (about human communication).
Knowledge of basics from general and social psychology is invited.
Knowledge of basics from general and social psychology is invited.
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction to the topic. Selection of a theme for spoken presentation.
2. Assessment criteria for the presentations. Stage fright and relaxation techniques.
3. Emotional intelligence. Empathy and its role in interpersonal communication.
4. The role of self-knowledge and self-monitoring in communication. Criticism and praise in communication.
5. Basics of the nonverbal communication. Principles of appropriate verbal and nonverbal expression. Beginning with the presentation.
6. Analysis of the most common mistakes in speech in terms of nonverbal communication .
7. Verbal communication, public speech. Rhetorics. Physiology of the speech act. Work and exercise with speech organs.
8. Types of presentations (informative, persuasing and improvised) and their specifics. Work with the audience. Presentation of the results on the professional and lay level.
9. Software support of presentations. Presentation tools and their appropriate use.
10. Ethics and etiquette in terms of presentation situations.
11. Specifics of presentations of civil engineering disciplines.
12. Specifics of team presentations. The role of the individual in the working group.
13. Presentation of printed materials. Written communication.
2. Assessment criteria for the presentations. Stage fright and relaxation techniques.
3. Emotional intelligence. Empathy and its role in interpersonal communication.
4. The role of self-knowledge and self-monitoring in communication. Criticism and praise in communication.
5. Basics of the nonverbal communication. Principles of appropriate verbal and nonverbal expression. Beginning with the presentation.
6. Analysis of the most common mistakes in speech in terms of nonverbal communication .
7. Verbal communication, public speech. Rhetorics. Physiology of the speech act. Work and exercise with speech organs.
8. Types of presentations (informative, persuasing and improvised) and their specifics. Work with the audience. Presentation of the results on the professional and lay level.
9. Software support of presentations. Presentation tools and their appropriate use.
10. Ethics and etiquette in terms of presentation situations.
11. Specifics of presentations of civil engineering disciplines.
12. Specifics of team presentations. The role of the individual in the working group.
13. Presentation of printed materials. Written communication.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction. Basic description of the presentation preparation. Principles of feedback.
2. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
3. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
4. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
5. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
6. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
7. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
8. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
9. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
10. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
11. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
12. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
13. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback. Feedback for the work of students.
2. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
3. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
4. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
5. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
6. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
7. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
8. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
9. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
10. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
11. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
12. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback.
13. The practical part of the course: an individual performance and a feedback. Feedback for the work of students.