Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Overview/Objectives:

This seminar deals with the creative side of language or speaking. By further developing a text you have brought/prepared (presentation, speech, podcast, poem…) you can discover and develop your own potentials through theoretical inputs as well as practical exercises. The goal of the seminar is always a lively, natural and, above all, audience-pleasing expression. Unleash your own powers in expression to leave a captivating impression on the audience!

 

Contents:

• Thought arcs and hierarchies
• Recognizing and influencing speech parameters
• Speech melody
• Word and sentence accents (shaping meaning)
• Speech-thought processes
• emotional filling and lively appealing expression
• bound vs. unbound speech
• speech stylistics, form stages
• target group orientation
• dialogicity, directness
• dramaturgical conceptualization
• energetic arc
• target sentence, core question, speech trigger
• audience-pleasing entrances and exits
• speech rhythm, meter, musical language

 

Methods:

• Individual performance
• Group work
• video/audio examples
• theoretical input
• practical speaking exercises
• practice with different genres and target groups
• further development of brought/prepared text
• Developing your own mini speech

 

Participation requirement:

Be open to moving out of your comfort zone with different speaking exercises.

 

Work Expenditure:

1 ECTS: active participation

2 ECTS: active participation + preparation of a text (presentation, speech, podcast, poem…)

3 ECTS: active participation + preparation/post-processing of a text (presentation, speech, podcast, poem…) + practical transfer task (will be discussed in the seminar)