Course details

Rhetoric

RET Acad. year 2021/2022 Winter semester 3 credits

Current academic year

The course is the outcome of a well-proven methodology, leading to a step-by-step increase of the volume of vocabulary, the elimination of often repeated errors and failures in talking by using the experience of logopedic consultancy, getting familiar with the rhetoric art of the antiquity, the medieval age and the new era. The content of the course and the methods used, at the same time, conduct the trainees to getting knowledge of the most excellent literature monuments of the time.

Guarantor

Klapetek Milan, ThMgr. (ICV VUT-Celoživotní)

Course coordinator

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Credit

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures

Department

Lecturer

Klapetek Milan, ThMgr. (ICV VUT-Celoživotní)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The knowledge acquired should provide for the cultivation of all modes of vocal and written communication. It should provide for the consolidation of the sense for mutual understanding and tolerance in interpersonal relations. A cultivated speech is supportive of a new dimension to technical erudition.

Learning objectives

The basic aim of the course is to develop the ability to consciously cultivate spoken the language in terms of both content and formal, as well as to eliminate the trauma, bad habits and other content defects and deficiencies.

Why is the course taught

Culture speech and communication often determines how successful a person will use their expert knowledge. BUT student has the right to require the possibility of education in this area, which can positively affect his whole life.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

No prerequisite knowledge is called for.

Study literature

  • Altrichterová, B., Nastuneaková, M.: Rétorika pro každého. Praha : Vydavatelství ČVUT, 1997.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. The nonobviousness of the ability to convey ideas in words
  2. Rhetoric as art, born in the environment of Greek democracy
  3. Classical speech construction
  4. Evaluation of psychological and social circumstances
  5. Body language and gestures
  6. The art of persuading
  7. Eristic dialectics and its tricks
  8. Ethos of spoken speech
  9. Empathy and ability to listen

Controlled instruction

Attendance at lectures.

Exam prerequisites

Presence at the lectures with passing the test and furnishing a written work (approximately 2 pages of text, 500 - 1000 words).

Course inclusion in study plans

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