- Course Catalog Description:
- Students will reflect on how their personal passions, skills, and strengths align with different situations arts and cultural leaders face. Students will explore their own leadership strengths. Students will be broken into three case presentation teams where they will explore specific arts leadership styles. During these class periods, a local arts leader will join the class for the case discussion as well as to share their background and experiences. Finally, students will write a final synthesis paper identifying their career and leadership aspirations, personal mission and values, and how they intend to apply and develop their leadership strengths over the remainder of their engagement in the ACL program.
- Class Description:
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Participants will learn techniques for making effective, persuasive presentations to different kinds of audiences. They will record themselves doing a presentation for most class session; sometimes they will also give this presentation in class. This practice is essential to gain experience and confidence with public speaking. There will be no tests. Students will receive credit for required presentations, readings /videos, reflections, peer feedback, and class participation. Attendance at each class is required. Past students who have completed all assignments, treated classmates respectfully, and come to class regularly have received A's.
- Learning Objectives:
- By the end of the course, students should be able to:
• speak publicly with greater confidence
• present more persuasively
• create effective, high-impact slides
• tailor presentations to audiences
- Grading:
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Final grades.
These weights in percentages are approximate
10% Completion of assigned readings/videos and reflections on them
50% Presentations
20% Feedback to other students
5% Self-feedback on your own presentations
15% Class participation, including attendance and discussion participation
- Exam Format:
- There are no exams
- Class Format:
- Classes are a mix of presentations, feedback, and discussion of reading/viewing resources
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34384/1189
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/free0303_ACL8201_Fall2018.docx
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 July 2018