Welcome to 150
This is the main kind of communication course you signed up for.
What is Fundamentals of Oral Communication?
This 1–2 minute Week 1 assignment is worth 30 points and helps us start building confidence and community.
What is the Intro Video?
When someone else is speaking, doing this—rather than simply waiting for your turn—is an important part of participation.
What is active listening?
This is the lowest letter grade that earns credit for the GE requirement.
What is a C–?
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What is TASC — Tutoring & Academic Support Center?
COMM 150 fulfills this General Education requirement.
What is GE Area A1: Oral Communication?
Four of these Canvas assignments are worth 20 points each, for a total of 80 points.
What are Canvas Discussions?
Good participation includes making sure you do not dominate this metaphorical classroom resource.
What is floor time?
If you know an assignment will be late, the syllabus says you should do this BEFORE the deadline.
What is communicate with the professor and request permission, including a plan for completion/submission?
Students who need reasonable disability accommodations can work with this campus office.
What is the Disability Programs and Resource Center (DPRC)?
Besides public speaking, students will study communication in these two kinds of interactions.
What are interpersonal relationships and group interactions?
This technology-enhanced presentation is worth 100 points—the largest single speech assignment.
What is the Informative PSA?
Students will evaluate their own participation and engagement at these two points in the semester.
What are midterm and finals week?
In the “24/7 Policy,” this number represents how many hours you should reflect and review the assignment guidelines before discussing a grade.
What is 24 hours?
This program offers real-time support to students having difficulty navigating the university or experiencing hardship.
What is Dean on Call?
Ethos, pathos, and logos are part of this communication tradition students will study.
What is rhetoric?
Students will complete this final 80-point speech during Weeks 15–16.
What is the Special Occasion Speech?
The syllabus says our classroom is a place where everyone does BOTH of these things—including the professor.
What are teaching and learning from one another?
In that same 24/7 Policy, after this many days the grade is considered understood, accepted, and finalized.
What is 7 days?
Free food resources, emergency funds, and crisis housing are among the services available through this initiative.
What is the Basic Needs Initiative?
The syllabus describes this class not only as an oral communication course, but as this kind of class, using public speaking as advocacy and examining racism and anti-Blackness in communication.
What is a social justice class?
Add up every assignment in the class and you get this many possible points.
What is 700 points?
Instead of this model, where teachers simply “deposit” information into students’ brains, the course uses social constructionist, problem-solving, and anti-racist approaches.
What is the banking model of education?
If circumstances allow a missed speech to be submitted by video instead, the maximum possible credit may be this percentage.
What is 80%?
This program supports undocumented students and is specifically included among the resources in the syllabus.
What is the Dream Resource Center?