Course Details

Presentation Skills (MI)

Academic Year 2025/26

NZB015 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the topic of presentation skills. Selection of a theme of spoken presentation.
  • 2. Assessment criteria for the presentations. Evaluation reports. Stage fright and relaxation techniques. Coping of presentation nervousness.
  • 3. Emotional intelligence. Empathy and its importance in interpersonal and presentation communication. Working with the audience.
  • 4. The role of self-knowledge and self-monitoring in communication. Critics and praise in communication. Grammar exercises.
  • 5. Basics of nonverbal communication and presentation preparation. Analysis of the most common mistakes in speech in terms of nonverbal communication.
  • 6. Beginning with the presentation. Effective introduction and conclusion.
  • 7. Basics of verbal communication. Voice preparation and rhetoric. Czech in the speech. Presentation academic language.
  • 8. Types of presentations (informative, persuasive and improvising) and their specifics. The presentation of results for the professionals and general public.
  • 9. Software support of presentations. Presentation tools and their appropriate using. Visual aids, optimal work with them.
  • 10. Ethics and etiquette from the view of presentation situations. Becoming a better presenter.
  • 11. Specifics of presentations of civil engineering disciplines. Tips for a proper presentation. The rhetorical triangle.
  • 12. Specifics of team presentations. The role of the individual in a presenting group.
  • 13. Presentation of printed material. Summary of knowledge.