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College-level strategies and skills in time management, reading, speaking, writing, and test preparation. Students explore learning preferences to develop strategies in different academic settings.

This course is designed for frosh approaching the end of year one at Stanford. The goal is to help you think more broadly and more deeply about the remainder of your Stanford undergraduate education, reflecting on what you have learned so far. Weekly meetings will consist of presentations and discussions, emphasizing an integrated approach to making the most of Stanford. The course will include guest lecturers and background readings. Aspects of a student's life that will be discussed include coursework, residential life, personal health and development, extracurricular groups, different types of relationships (friends and close others, teacher-student, advisor-advisee, peer mentoring), community and public service, and career development. The course should build your knowledge of and ability to use the many resources at Stanford designed to assist you in all these areas, as well as connecting you with the experiences of other students, helping you to peer into your own future.

Workshop focusing on exercises designed to help foreign students improve their articulation and delivery in English. Work includes breath, sound, enunciation, melody, and colloquialism.

Focus is on breath, voice production, expansion of vocal range and stamina, and clarity of articulation. Geared toward public speaking including presentations, lectures, and job talks. May be taken in conjunction with CTL 117.

The principles and practice of effective oral communication. Through formal and informal speaking activities, students develop skills framing and articulating ideas through speech. Strategies for speaking extemporaneously, preparing and delivering multimedia presentations, formulating persuasive arguments, refining critical clarity of thought, and enhancing general facility and confidence in oral self-expression.

A practical approach to the art of public speaking. Emphasis is on developing skills in speech types including impromptu, personal experience, interviewing, demonstration, persuasive, and special occasion. Materials include videotape, texts of famous speeches, and a final dinner program of speeches. Students evaluate presentations by others. $55 materials fee.

Seminar. For students with a strong background in public speaking who wish to train as public speaking tutors for CTL's Oral Communication Program. Readings, exercises, and supervised teaching refine speaking skills. Preparation to serve as a peer tutor in a variety of academic disciplines. Prerequisite: application and consent of instructor.

Goal is to help students become effective peer tutors for course material already mastered by articulating aims; developing practical tutoring skills including strategies for drop-in sessions; observing experienced tutors; discussing reading assignments; role playing; and reflecting on experiences as a peer tutor intern. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Stereotype threat as mitigating the quality of a student's test performance; its impact on academic success at Stanford. How to reduce the impact of stereotype threat on Stanford students.