Welcome to Communication 1020: Principles of Public Speaking, on this page you will learn about me, your instructor, and you will get an overview of the course.

## Your Instructor

Instructor: [Instructor's name]

Best way to communicate with me: use the Inbox on Canvas

Response Time: Will respond to emails within 24-48 hours, except on weekends.

Virtual Office: Conferences tab on left-hand menu

Virtual Office Hours: [insert virtual office hours]

Office location: [insert office location]

Office Hours: [insert office hours]

Office Phone: [insert phone number]

I will answer the questions that all students want to know: who is my professor and what are they all about. My name is [instructor's name here], you can call me [preferred way students address you]. I am your professor, guide, and facilitator for this course. I have made a short 2-3 minute introductory video of myself so that you can learn a little bit about me, my qualifications, my experience, my educational background and my pet peeves! Later in this course you will learn about “ethos”; this video is meant to help you understand my ethos for this online public speaking course.

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## Overview

This course will teach you the principles of public speaking. Regardless of your experience with public presentations, every one of you can take with you a solid foundation in presentation theory and application to build upon for your future careers. This course is meant to empower you as a public presenter, teach you all of the basics, and encourage you to speak up in public not being afraid to let your voice, opinions, and ideas be heard! My hope is that all students will be successful in this course and feel empowered as public speakers upon completion. In order to be successful in this course you must remember that you will get out of this course what you put in.

On the next page, you will be introduced to the course syllabus, you should carefully read through the course syllabus, as you will be quizzed over the material contained in the syllabus, and the syllabus has valuable information you will need to know. You should think of the course syllabus as a contract between yourself and me.

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