The American Academy

In this course, students will learn how great speeches are constructed and delivered. Students will analyze historical speeches and craft their own speech as they learn argumentative and presentation skills. In this course, students will learn how to speak publicly in a variety of settings, with an emphasis on how speeches are constructed and delivered. Students will analyze historical speeches and evaluate the role of time, place, audience and culture on many of the great speeches of the past century. Experiential learning exercises will have students crafting and delivering their own speeches and evaluating the public speaking of others.