Study location	Netherlands, Maastricht
Type	Summer Courses, Intensive - Full time
Nominal duration	1 week
Study language	English

Tuition fee	€799 one-time Early Bird Discount: €749,00. Valid until 17 February 2025.

Entry qualification

Enrolled as an Undergraduate student or Undergraduate diploma The classes depend on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality. It’s essential that all participants feel welcome, valued and acknowledged for who they are. This class is ideal for beginners, intermediate, and advanced speakers. The variety of speaking contexts allows everybody to advance to their next level. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original.

Language requirements	English The language of the course is English, so we expect a fluent level and the ability to follow and participate in class.

More information	maastrichtsummerschool.nl

Overview

Course Description
Becoming an effective communicator is the aim of the young and ambitious. It’s the foundation of successful business relationships. Strong communicators clearly articulate their thoughts, persuade others, and build rapport with colleagues, stakeholders, and clients. Welcome to this 5-Day Discovery Public Speaking Course. If you need more clarification on your level of public speaking, you’ll develop confidence and clarity on this comprehensive journey. Each session brings context, content, and new challenges. Breathing exercises and other foundational techniques, like posture, body language, gestures, and vocal variety, are discussed, and reviewed. Throughout each day, we create and deliver planned and impromptu speeches and tie them back to the theory and course learning objectives. This fun course encompasses creative storytelling, speech structures, Aristotle’s work on rhetoric (persuasion), rhetorical devices, debating, introducing speakers and offering a vote thanks. Finally, we look at the use and misuse of PowerPoint presentations. Dig in for a challenging experience in public speaking that will change your perception of what you can achieve, and reassess your career trajectory

Goals
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• To communicate effectively using posture, body language, facial expression, vocal variety, creating fluency, rhythm, and articulacy through impromptu and planned speech exercises;
• Understand and utilise Aristotle’s rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos;
• Understand and utilise Aristotle’s 5 Canons of Rhetoric – planning, preparation, and practice;
• Understand and utilise the language of leadership;
• Understand and utilise creative storytelling in speech craft;
• Understand and utilise leadership tools like how to introduce a speaker; deliver a keynote speech; how to deliver a vote of thanks;
• Understand and utilise the purpose of debating in a business setting;
• Understand and utilise various leadership tools; delivering a SWOT analysis; Johari Window exercise;
• Understand the requirements of a panel discussion understand and utilise PowerPoint and other visual tools effectively.

Recommended Literature
• Bibliography: Our Masters’ Voices (1984) – Prof Max Atkinson – The language and body language of speeches – ISBN 9 780416 377002
• Lend Me Your Ears – Prof Max Atkinson – All You Need to Know About Making Speeches and Presentations (2004): This book offers practical advice and insights into crafting effective speeches and presentations, drawing on Atkinson’s extensive experience.
• Speech-Making and Presentation Made Easy – Prof Max Atkinson – (2008): This book provides a more accessible guide to public speaking, offering simple yet effective strategies for anyone looking to improve their communication skills.
• You Talkin’ to me? – Sam Leith – Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama – ISBN 9 781846 683152

Teaching Methods
Interactive Class, Presentations

Assessment Methods
Attendance, Presentations

Course Coordinator
Vincent Stevenson