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SPD 110-21 : Introduction to Speech Communication
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Everything we do involves communication yet the discipline is much misunderstood. This course will help you increase your awareness and understanding of the basic elements of speech communication, increase your self-confidence and improve your critical thinking skills.

Saturdays 10:00 am - 1:50 pm

NVCC Annandale, CM 245

 

 

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Severe Weather Emergency Plan - click on the link below:

Severe Weather Emergency Plan

Join us for our most recent Field Trips by clicking on the links below:

Symbolism: Constructing a Story of Freedom - A Class Trip to Freedom Park in Rosslyn, July 14, 2007

Symbolism: Honoring Our Heroes - A Class Trip to Arlington National Cemetery - April 14, 2007

Symbolism: Portraits of Remembrance - A Class Trip to The Memorial To Women in the Military Service - September 30, 2006

Symbolism: Constructing Our Story - A Class Trip to Arlington National Cemetery, June 10, 2006

Symbolism, Heroes, & Mythology: A Class Field Trip to the War Memorials in Washington, DC - April 15, 2006

Reflections on Leadership: a class trip to the FDR Memorial, July 23, 2005

Symbolism, Nature and Mythology: A Class Trip to the National Zoo, October 29, 2005

 

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Operation Any Soldier

Assignments
(Word Documents)

Audio Lectures
(Windows Media
  Player Files)

The Importance of Ethical Communication: An Overview

Slides

Social Constructs:
How do they shape our society?

Separate, But Equal?

Where We Live: World War II Housing

Cos and Effect

Science Notebook: Gender and the Brain

Race: The Power of an Illusion

Notes
 

Linguistics Resources
Explore Our Linguistic Diversity - click on the picture below to go to the "Do You Speak American?" Website:

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What's involved in creating a new language?  Listen to "Talk of the Nation" - click on the picture below:
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Deborah Tannen - Survival Guide, an interview

How do we translate the untranslatable?
Click on the picture below to listen
to an interview with the author of
"In Other Words"

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Why Can't A Man Be More Like A Woman? - Washington Post 2/23

Bay's Dialects Slowly Dying - Washington Post 2/19

Dr. Orlando Taylor - Four Generalizations About Language

"What Global Language?" - The Atlantic Monthly, November 2000

How Do I Love Thee? - Atlantic Monthly, March 2006

Logging On For Love - The Atlantic Monthly, March 2006

Supplementary Material

APA Style Paper - Tutoring Center Example

Check out The First Amendment Project by clicking on the picture below:

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"Somebody Blew Up America" by Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka's response to critics

Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops From the Battlefields of Iraq - Program Website

Aristotle's "Rhetoric"
click on the picture
below:
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Visit website for "The Persuaders"; watch the program again and check out the resources.

The American Advertising Federation Code of Ethics

Master the Fundamentals: Interviewing and Resume Writing

The Resume-Interview Connection

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Visit The Washington Post's Tribute to American Servicemembers killed in Iraq
& Afghanistan click on the picture to the left

 
 
 
 
Library of Congress Exhibit
Churchill & The Great Republic -
click on Winston Churchill

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Symbolism is all around; take a ride on the Marshmallow Peeps Bus above!

The Hunk Factor

The Friendship Compatability Quiz

12 Steps To Grow A Friendship