printer friendly pageCTL 25SI: Navigating Stanford: Optimizing Your Undergraduate Experience
Navigating Stanford aims to put you on the path to making the most out of your exciting journey at Stanford. Covering various aspects of student life--from the best places to eat and study, to how to develop meaningful and lasting relationships with professors--this course is intended to get Stanford¿s newest and youngest students thinking about the ways they can make the most out of the next four years. Featuring a range of guest speakers and themes, this class will give incoming freshmen the opportunity to encounter a diversity of experiences and perspectives from the people who know Stanford best: its students.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Allen, D. (PI)
CTL 53: Working Smarter
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.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Townsend, L. (PI)
CTL 105: Voice and Articulation Intensive for Non-Native English Speakers
Workshop focusing on exercises designed to help foreign students improve their articulation and delivery in English. Work includes breath, sound, enunciation, melody, and colloquialism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
CTL 115: Voice Workshop (CTL 215)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
CTL 117: The Art of Effective Speaking (CTL 217)
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.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
CTL 118: Public Speaking: Romancing the Room
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.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Wagstaffe, J. (PI)
CTL 119: Oral Communication Tutor Teaching Practicum
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Allen, D. (PI)
;
Yeager, L. (PI)
CTL 120: Peer Tutor Training
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.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Randazzo, T. (PI)
CTL 177: Performance of Power: Oratory and Authority from the Ancient World to the Postmodern
Speech as action has long been seen as essential to leadership. Theories and examples of oratory, from Aristotle to Barack Obama, assessing each as model of voice-activated authority. The impact of mass media technologies as they transform the public space of oratory.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
Instructors:
Freeland, T. (PI)
CTL 199: Independent Study
Special study under lecturer direction, usually leading to a written report or an oral presentation. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
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