Course Details
Presentation Skills
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the topic of presentation skills. Selection of a theme of spoken presentation.
- 2. Assessment criteria for the presentations. Evaluation reports. Stage fright and relaxation techniques. Coping of presentation nervousness.
- 3. Emotional intelligence. Empathy and its importance in interpersonal and presentation communication. Working with the audience.
- 4. The role of self-knowledge and self-monitoring in communication. Critics and praise in communication. Grammar exercises.
- 5. Basics of nonverbal communication and presentation preparation. Analysis of the most common mistakes in speech in terms of nonverbal communication.
- 6. Beginning with the presentation. Effective introduction and conclusion.
- 7. Basics of verbal communication. Voice preparation and rhetoric. Czech in the speech. Presentation academic language.
- 8. Types of presentations (informative, persuasive and improvising) and their specifics. The presentation of results for the professionals and general public.
- 9. Software support of presentations. Presentation tools and their appropriate using. Visual aids, optimal work with them.
- 10. Ethics and etiquette from the view of presentation situations. Becoming a better presenter.
- 11. Specifics of presentations of civil engineering disciplines. Tips for a proper presentation. The rhetorical triangle.
- 12. Specifics of team presentations. The role of the individual in a presenting group.
- 13. Presentation of printed material. Summary of knowledge.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Communication and rhetoric at present, its usage in professional praxis and personal life.
- 2. Principles of empathy in communication. Social stereotypes and particularly the effect of the first impression, group activity.
- 3. The principles of good public speech. Diction, respiration, phonation and articulation.
- 4. Preparation of content and form of speech. Principles of communication among people.
- 5. Linguistic and stylistic aids. Speaker's personality. Czech language in speeches.
- 6. Nonverbal means and speaker's celebrity.
- 7. Structuring the construction of rhetorical speech. Quality of public speeches. Individual types of public, monologues and dialogic speeches in praxis.
- 8. Trial of acquired knowledge and skills by the test of rhetorical self-reflection and public speeches (using a video). Public presentation of students.
- 9. Public presentations of students. Analysis of successes and failures, feedback.
- 10. Public presentations of students. Analysis of successes and failures, feedback.
- 11. Public presentations of students. Analysis of successes and failures, feedback.
- 12. Public presentations of students. Analysis of successes and failures, feedback.
- 13. Public presentations of students. Analysis of successes and failures, feedback.